Top 25 Carly Chaikin Quotes

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’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.

I’m so hyper-aware of everything around me and everyone and everything that people do.

At restaurants, I always get a kids’ menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media – it’s a false sense of intimacy and connection.

One of my favorite paintings I’ve done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

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?’

What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable?

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.

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 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.

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.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was – for lack of a better word – my calling.

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 just love human emotion and faces.

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.

I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.

‘Mr. Robot’ has made me so much more aware of everything. I have to think about it.

I guess I don’t really feel like I have that much power to influence that many people.

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 never leave my computer open. That becomes a big OCD thing. If I see people leaving their laptops open, I always close them.

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 really love ‘America’s Next Top Model.’ I’m always tweeting about it, and people are like, ‘You need to get a life!’

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.

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.