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" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "

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" It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. "

" Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there. "

" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "

" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "

" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "

" I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "

" We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare. "

" I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't. "

" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. "

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "

" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "

" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long. "

" I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. "

" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "

" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "

" I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way. "

" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "

" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "

" I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable. "

" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "

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" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "