I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

I love theater.

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'

I'm just happy when people want me to work for them.

Sex can still be great, even without an orgasm.

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.