I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so much more import because it's the last time we're going to do it. It's been really helpful saying, "OK, where do we want each of these characters to end?" We have 10 episodes to do it and working backward from that, I kind of envy my friends who have always been on a cable network because this is really that great benefit of doing it this way.

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

If I'm going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?