I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and...

‘Fresh Air’ I listen to, like, every day.

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn’t want to be a lawyer. I...

No actor wants to choose – they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

I think we’ve probably all read a word that we’ve never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

On the set of ‘Community,’ we quote ‘Community’ to each other. We’re a lost cause. We’re like a bunch of little kids running around and yelling things.

I’ve been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning – I like those a lot.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

Boy, you know, it’s amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

You’ve got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.

I’ve had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

I think ‘Glee’ was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it’s your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there’s any sort of overlap in content or tone...

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

What I think is a really special movie is ‘Black and White’ with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, which Mike Binder directed. I got to see a screening of it, and I think Kevin and...

No one in my school liked me.

I think when you’re in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you’re having to deal with.

Sometimes movies that I’m in that I have a leading role don’t necessarily get the biggest release, so it’s a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have...

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

I very rarely listen to music in my car – a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I’m like a teenager.

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

A movie that I’ve seen probably the most is ‘Fanny & Alexander,’ the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don’t know how much...

I troll Instagram, Style.com, Elle.com.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, ‘Well, it’s either theater or film for me, and that will be that!’

I haven’t done improv since I was in middle school.

I think, you know, when you’re an actor who’s had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job – to say that you’re expected somewhere, do you know what I...

I like the ‘Moth’ podcast a lot. I listen to that.

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, ‘Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.’ She goes, ‘Gillian...

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.

I’ve had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It’s been really fun.

‘The Comeback’ is my favorite TV show of all-time because it’s just brill. It’s Lisa Kudrow’s show about what it’s like to be an actor on a TV show. She’s so amazing on it.

I am not a big ‘Hunger Games’ fan.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

‘Dancing on My Own’ is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

I wasn’t necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don’t think it’s an accident that I ended up on ‘Community.’

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

I haven’t ever seen ‘Lost’… I’m sorry.

I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums...

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of ‘Community,’ that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way ‘Community’ means something to people. That’s more powerful...

‘The New Yorker’s fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in ‘The New Yorker.’

My mom wouldn’t know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

You have to have an awareness of where you’re going, what the event is, what you’re promoting, and who the audience is. That always informs the way you dress.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I would love it if ‘Community’ could have a trajectory like ’30 Rock’ and choose when to go out.

Hey, I’m nothing but honest!

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won’t work on me because I’m not 5’10. It has...