I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Technology makes the world a new place.

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Inner space is the real frontier.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.