The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.