Krysten Ritter Quotes
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I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.
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I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.
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Everybody has that: everybody knows what it's like to go home and then regress and not be running from something, not like who you were when you were home. I think everybody relates to that.
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I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.
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It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
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Besides boutiques, I love H&M. Affordable and adorable.
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I thought that our first New York Comic Con for 'Jessica Jones' was epic because we had a pretty major reaction from the crowd after showing our first episode!
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I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.
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The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.
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I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
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To be honest, I didn't love the high-fashion world because models aren't always treated that well. I was a scrappy kid from a farm, and that world felt a little snobby. But I was grateful for it, and my photo shoots now are really fast because I know my poses.
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I'm not a wallflower, and I encourage girls to live that way.
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A lot of actresses start out modeling because it's a great way to sort of get your foot in the door. That's all it is, though. They open the door, and you have to walk through it.
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My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'
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The thing about Netflix is that you get more minutes in your episode because there are no commercial breaks. You have time to let things breathe and be quiet. You get to see an entire scene play out instead of just jumping halfway in.
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I'm a lanky girl, naturally.
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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.
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Marvel has, like, 9,000 characters. They could do a horror movie tomorrow and call it Marvel. They can do anything.
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Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids' table. Netflix is amazing. We're the biggest fans of not only working there but of the company in general.
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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.
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I kept telling people, 'I really want to do something like 'Breaking Bad,'' and then people would remind me, 'Krysten, you were on 'Breaking Bad!''
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I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking head or an actor reading lines.
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I'm very into dresses, shoes, and makeup.
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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.