Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language – best to learn it as a child.
When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.
My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.
My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
You have to move so you don’t die. You have to move so your brain doesn’t atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I’ve had to find ways to make it sexy for myself.
When it’s low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
I didn’t drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn’t take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we’d make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.
The work that’s interesting to me in other people is really confessional.
I have to remind myself that when you exercise, there is a natural calm that comes from knowing that you did something with your body that day. Actually going and working out makes everything else easier and better.
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 never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
I value my health and my happiness. And I’ve realized exercise can give me both of those things.
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne’s that’s a really kind of creative hot bed.
I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
It’s funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
I feel like you don’t know if someone’s equipped for a romantic relationship until they’re out of their twenties.
I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.
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.