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

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

" I had so many faux-parents. "

" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "

" I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. "

" When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire. "

" Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family. "

" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "

" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "

" I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?' "

" I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "

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

" My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. "

" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "

" It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. "

" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "

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

" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "

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" Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written. "

" I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together. "

" 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. "

" Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous. "

" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "

" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "

" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "

Self-Confidence

" There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. "

" I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise. "