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

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

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

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

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