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" I'm nice, and I show up on time. "

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" One thing I've learned is I actually don't like variety very much. I like having the same thing over and over: assorted lean proteins, arugula salad, quinoa or brown rice with soy sauce, olive oil, lemon, and salt. Those ingredients can pretty much get me through the week. "

" Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me. "

" The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else. "

" Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show. "

" All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline. "

" I've learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner. "

" My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn't translate into many academic credits. "

" As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point. "

" I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each. "

" The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it. "

" I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet. "

" My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. "

" Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans. "

" I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself. "

" If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now. "

" I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident. "

" Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. "

" One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials. "

" I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and the history of the craft in general. If you don't know what's out there, and what came before, then how can you picture yourself working, and how can anyone else? "

" Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it! "

" As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process. "

" As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. "

" None of my characters have really had jobs. "

" I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut. "

" The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl. "

" I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending. "

" I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. "

" Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap. "