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

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.

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

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Change is not progress.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.