I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

I like being put in embarrassing positions because it's the reason why I wanted to be an actress. I want to try different things and things that make me uncomfortable.

It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about.

My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.