You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?

Being a teenager is hard.

Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

Act because you love to act.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!

You have to choose your future regrets.

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

I make sure the foods I eat will benefit the appearance of my hair, skin and nails.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'