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" 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. "

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

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" I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. "

" 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. "

" Just for daily wear, I love discovering new jeans companies. "

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

" Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible. "

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

" 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! "

" You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain. "

" Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea. "

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

" The thing about good writing is it has a music to 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. "

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

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

" Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. "

" 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. "

" If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high. "

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

" 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. "

" I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it. "

" I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on. "

" These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.' "

" Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants. "

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

" I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me. "

" We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all. "

" When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest. "