There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

On True Blood — I've never told anybody this—but I was so nervous and I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members — and I had just met all these people the day before — and I was going up to all of them like, 'You got a boner! You do! You've got one!' It was horrible. Horrible!

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

When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.

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.

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

It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what that means in relationships. As a person in the world, it's on your mind. It's a part of your life, after a certain age until you're dead. So, to be able to examine it in a different way is really fulfilling.