Krysten Ritter

If you really want something, you’ve gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

I’m having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I’ll have a family, because I don’t want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it’s not defining who I am.

I didn’t know how to throw a punch – why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

I think it’s important to be flexible and free, and you can’t be free and spontaneous if you don’t know what you’re doing.

What I’m doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like ‘Game of Thrones.’ Get that balance.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

There are so many different definitions of ‘pretty.’ it’s so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring- nobody cares anymore.

That is not a functional use of language. That is a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Wow, that is hard to watch. Hi, this is Ted Cruz, just calling to remind you to vote for a man who insulted my wife and said my dad helped kill JFK. Anyway, life has no meaning. Thank you. I want to die.

[on marriage] I’m a fan of marriage, but more for other people right now than for myself.

[on choosing films she will be in] I have a weird process, but the main thing is like this: I hear her voice in my head. There are a lot of wonderful scripts my agents can’t believe I pass on, but I do because I can’t hear the voice. It doesn’t appeal to me then. I’m really careful. Unless I hear the voice, I can’t do it.

I actually love the audition process, so I’m so happy to fight for things. I would love to read something that I want to fight for, but lately the scripts are not that compelling.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I’m never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I don’t know what it feels like not to have a great family support system – I was lucky to have that.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

People want to try and move you into a place where you can be easily identifiable by every woman in America – to be this very likable woman in a romantic comedy. And it’s really hard for me. I just don’t see myself as the girl that everybody likes. I never have been and I don’t know how to be that person.

If the songs aren’t there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.