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

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.

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.

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

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.