I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
Carly Chaikin
I'm so hyper-aware of everything around me and everyone and everything that people do.
A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.
Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.
We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.
I love games. When I first saw 'Celebrity Family Feud,' I literally, in all caps, emailed my team and was like, 'Why am I not on this?'
I just love human emotion and faces.
I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.
I look at so many people's feeds like, 'God, your life is so cool. Like, I want to do that! Why don't I get that?' And I will get envious of someone's life, and we don't think about the fact that it's completely - not fake, but it's one single screenshot of just the good times.
All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.
At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.
When people wear dresses, I want to wear pants and vice versa.
I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.
There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.
I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.
One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.
People do notice me - I'm always so surprised. When I dyed my hair blond for 'Suburgatory,' people would still recognize me from 'The Last Song,' when I had red hair, and I didn't even recognize myself.
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!'
'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.
I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.
I've been so lucky to be able to go into such different worlds from my own, and that's what makes my job so fun. I just want to continue doing that.
So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.
I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.
Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.
I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still have all the same friends and do all the same things.
I never leave my computer open. That becomes a big OCD thing. If I see people leaving their laptops open, I always close them.
One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared.
All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.
I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl.
I guess I don't really feel like I have that much power to influence that many people.
'Mr. Robot' has made me so much more aware of everything. I have to think about it.
What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable?
