There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

I have this really big face.

What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.