Top 70 Alexandra Daddario Quotes

I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.

I’m a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I’ve never done before.

Having dinner with somebody you’ve looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, ‘Wow. I’m having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.’ That’s intense.

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.

It’s cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

I watched ‘Alien,’ and I watched ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,’ the Swedish version. I watched the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ and I watched the Jessica Biel version and watched Jessica’s performance.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

That’s a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, ‘My mom was the Rock’s daughter.’ I don’t have kids yet, but my future children – I just feel like it’s the coolest thing ever.

I get really frightened easily.

I’m pretty consistently fit because I think it’s an important part of my work, but I will ramp it up just because I have been enjoying myself a little bit too much.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.

My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.

Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don’t need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won’t last forever.

I never know what’s going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I’ve found with the opportunities that I’ve been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

Television is going through a transformation where you’re basically able to do big, long movies in television.

I’ve been pretty lucky. Every single thing I’ve done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.

I love my rabbit, my family rabbit.

I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice – very cliche actress.

When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don’t run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.

I’m a huge fan of Steve Martin. He’s hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

I like comedies in general.

I’m obsessed with this show called ‘Workaholics.’

Following your heart and working really, really hard is the best thing you can do, and just try not to be too hard on yourself.

I love ‘House of Cards.’ I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn’t say Method, but I can’t really avoid getting into character.

Every single thing you do, you don’t really have expectations.

Voiceover work, I really enjoy. I don’t get to do too much of it, but I’ve been doing more lately, and I like it because you get to do a bunch of options, one after the other, and you can go as big as you want or as small as you want, and you don’t think about it sometimes.

When I did ‘Percy Jackson,’ people told me, ‘Oh, you’re going to be so famous… you’re not going to be able to walk down the street… it’s going to be huge,’ and it wasn’t – although it was big for my career.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they’re in, you can relate to them in a way.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

Nobody is all good or bad.

It’s wonderful that we’re portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

Boundaries move with time. It’s like being the oldest child. Your parents don’t know what to expect, but by the time the little sister comes along, it’s like, ‘Oh, staying out late with a boy – no big deal.’

It’s never a done deal until it’s a done deal.

‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ I did an episode on, and that’s one of my favorite television shows ever, and there are these shows that I watch so regularly.

I didn’t expect anything crazy to happen from ‘True Detective.’

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don’t know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she’s wearing.

I feel like I’m still at a point where I have a lot to learn from watching myself, so I find that it helps. But it’s always weird.

I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde’s restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.

I think I’m sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I’m a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you’ve experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It’s cool to be in that position.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up – I couldn’t get enough.

You never know what’s really going to hit.

It’s really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

There’s a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything’s very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need – but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.

I’m not a great student, so I don’t know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

I had done a lot of running in ‘Texas Chainsaw’ and sword-fighting in ‘Percy Jackson,’ which taught me to fall properly.

I knew the name; I knew who Leatherface was. But I hadn’t seen any of the films, mostly because I’m a scaredy-cat.

I feel like it’s very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I’m doing.

I was lucky because when I’d done ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,’ I had to have extensive weapons training.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog.

I think I’ve learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.

I love to travel, and I think being whisked away somewhere for a vacation is a pretty amazing date. But, I’m really into the basic movie and dinner. It’s not where you are but who you’re with that really matters.

I’m not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.

I’m just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that’s the best part about all of this.

I’m honored that people would think of me for any big role that is talked about a lot.

For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I’ve been able to consistently do over the years. I think it’s because it also is sort of a mental exercise and calms you and refocuses you. So I find that that’s great, and sometimes someone will drag me to a spin class or on a hike.

I’d love to do a period piece.

I’ve really fought to get into rooms, and I’m a big believer in auditioning. It’s hard, because I’m insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you’d never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It’s an interesting test for an actor.

I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.

That would make a great Instagram photo – me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.