Krysten Ritter

There’s only one person for every job. You can try all you want, but if you’re not right for it, you’re not gonna get it.

I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I’m more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you’re 20 minutes early, that means you’re too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies’ room, have some water, and get comfortable.

I’m all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There’s just not enough time in the day.

I’m a weirdo. I don’t leave the house unless I have to.

I like to audition for good projects because if it’s a good project, it’s an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

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’ve always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

It sounds lame, but I was really concentrating on this job. It was my first American thing so I was pretty focused. I went to Portland for two months before we starting shooting, and I just didn’t talk to anybody for ages during the beginning of the shoot. I never went out, but I kind of broke down half way through. I was like, ‘Okay, people are starting to think that I’m actually out of my mind now.

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

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started?

With the war and everything that’s going on, unless you’re Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

I don’t actually own a car.

I quit driving, I’m not retired.

I’m quite obviously not the world’s most handsome man – I’m the second world’s most handsome man!

Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet; that’s what gets me pretty upset.

I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Although it’s painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively – some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don’t agree with, you don’t work on.

I’m blessed with a lot of energy and stamina. I can’t stand sitting still. I went to a spa once with my mom and I was like, “Get me out of here!'”

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.