If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.