My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

I am a private human.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.