I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
Nothing's better than a picnic.
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
