I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

I make a very good steak.

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

I was raised on the Internet.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

It's really hard to grow with another person.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

I have an agent now.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.