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 hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?

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

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

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.

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

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.