I have quite a foul mouth.

I don’t know if I would call myself a religious human.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don’t.

All the characters on ‘Girls’ are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we’re young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

With ‘Girls,’ it doesn’t really feel like I’m doing TV specifically. It just feels like we’re making a really long film.

The lighthearted moments of ‘Girls’ are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it’s hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

I did ‘Mad Men’ and I still have people come up to me like, ‘Are you actually a lesbian?’ Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they’re gonna think.

For me, it’s owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they’re true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

I think feminism’s a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There’s nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody’s confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.