I’m empathetic to a fault. I really do – embarrassingly enough – tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
Here’s why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They’re not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.
I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.
The funny thing is that I’m not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That’s where you’ll find me in my last performance.
I don’t think that I’m modest by any means, but I’m also not an exhibitionist.
I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.
I don’t think there’s anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don’t have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can’t protect themselves.
There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don’t want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.
I just don’t ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, “Oh, shucks.” It’s just a boring character.
I’ve got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don’t have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.
Everybody just wants to be loved, and nobody feels loved enough in high school.
If you’re in high school, just know there is a big world out there and you can be anyone you want to be.
I came out of the make-up trailer with 400 whiteheads on my face and they were like, “Kristen, come on!” I was like, “What? It’s realistic! I had whiteheads in high school,” and they were like, “No, let’s just go with regular, standard, run of the mill acne.”
I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn’t all peachy keen. But, I don’t necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.
I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.
Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it’s newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren’t used to that.
The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength – although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.
I crave the diversity because I’m an actor and it’s more fun to play different types of characters, but I’m pretty spontaneous as well, so I don’t rule anything out.
Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It’s a swirling tornado of insecurities and there’s really nothing good about it.
I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.
I’ll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I’m a very hungry actress.