Sometimes I look at where we've come to, and how much technology and advancement there is, and I can't believe that we're not this perfectly balanced, beautiful, peaceful society. I'm shocked that we're so deeply polarized, that there are people who want progress and they feel guilty for wanting progress, because it somehow seems un-American, because being American means staying ignorant and going backward.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.