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" I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny. "

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" There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor. "

" Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist. "

" I'm a pretty quiet person. "

" I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy. "

" You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you. "

" I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. "

" To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on. "

" I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists. "

" It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work. "

" I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them. "

" Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction. "

" As a kid, I felt really weird. "

" I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.' "

" The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do. "

" The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound. "

" I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste. "

" Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family. "

" I'm generally intimidated by adults. "

" I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things. "

" I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid. "

" I'm super grateful to be an employed actor. "

" Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make. "

" I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. "

" I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales. "

" It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past. "

" I don't look like most women in the industry. "

" The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound. "

" When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. "