Top 60 Hannah Simone Quotes

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

The greatest thing about ‘New Girl’ is that you never can predict what is next!

I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I’m addicted.

You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you’re in the role of a father or a husband, you don’t have to remind yourself that you shouldn’t tell your wife to hold the messages. If you do, that marriage is not going to last very long.

Everything I’ve done I’ve always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it’s been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they’re like, ‘You ready kid? Let’s go.’

I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I’ll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other’s boyfriends. That’s not really true to life.

I think if you want to be seen as an intelligent woman, you can’t be someone who feels empowered and sexy. I just don’t understand who makes these rules, and frankly, I’m not interested in them.

That’s so romantic, to wake up and find that he’s packed a bag – and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there – instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

If you’re not a workout person, go there 75 percent fast asleep. Anybody who has ever been in one of my workout classes knows I’m there practically in my pajamas!

I love when I go back to London. I love how the girls dress there.

I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, ‘This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you’re in this in the first place.’ So I was like, ‘Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.’ And so that’s what I started doing.

Clinique’s Chubby Stick Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Chunky Cherry is perfect for people with my skin tone.

If someone wants to take me on a date? I don’t know if I’d say no.

I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called ‘disBAND,’ told me, ‘I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.’ He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.

Indian weddings, visually, they’re so stunning.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it’s the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

The best place to live is where you are right now.

The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher’s ‘If I Could Turn Back Time.’

I think eventually I’d love to get into directing.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we’d go to.

I just can’t break. If I break, I’m done. So I don’t break.

I’m not afraid of change, let’s put it that way.

Take risks! I’m embracing bold prints.

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn’t seem possible; that seems insane.

Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It’s been a huge life lesson for me.

My lashes are so long that if I don’t curl them, I’m blind.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

I dated someone in the ’90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, ‘That just sounds so heavy and hard.’ But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

I feel like we can’t pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

It’s funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren’t allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

After I graduated in Vancouver, I had been working on a book about war-affected children and land mines with the foreign minister – he was working at a place on campus and hired me. I then got a job as a Human Rights and Refugees Officer in London, and I loved working there.

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is really fun for all of us.

I am passionate about human rights.

It’s aspirational for me. I’ve lived as a cat lady. I’m happy to be a cat lady. I’ll continue to be a cat lady. Just bring them all to my house, and I’ll keep them all, no problem.

Flirting is funny. And it’s awkward and weird.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show – which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I’ve worked in coffee shops. I’ve sold clothes. I’ve hosted TV shows, and now I’m acting.

We want to bring awareness for all those cats still searching for their forever home and not only help them find their perfect match but also make the transition home a success.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats – German, Swiss, Canadian, American – would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Working opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He’s just incredible.

My mom, well, she’s half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She’s just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.

A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.

I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I’m honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

America’s Next Shuffle Cat contest proved to be not only entertaining, but a rare chance for me to have an opportunity to host and judge some of the nation’s cutest cats as they strutted the catwalk.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I guess there are all these women with a big secret – they’re hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: ‘I’ve been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can’t give him up even though he’s embarrassing.’

It comes down to personal style, and that’s what’s sexy and attractive in a man.

I’m obsessed with karaoke, but I don’t like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn’t see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.