Top 66 Krysten Ritter Quotes

If I’m not working, I don’t even put makeup on.

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

I worked with my acting coach one-on-one for hours and hours, every single day for two months, before even setting foot on set or putting on Jessica Jones’s clothes.

I thought that our first New York Comic Con for ‘Jessica Jones’ was epic because we had a pretty major reaction from the crowd after showing our first episode!

I don’t have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.

My favorite part of ‘Jessica Jones’ is… all of it.

It’s exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There’s obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.

If you see a dog in a hot car, and you think that he’s in danger or that he’s been there for a while, it’s good to speak up… Go into whatever businesses it’s parked outside of, and just raise awareness about it.

I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting ‘L!fe Happens’ while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.

My gram taught me to knit when I was little, and then I came across my old knitting tools when I was cleaning out my closets after ‘JJ’ season one and got right back into it.

I try to drink a lot of water and always moisturize. When my skin gets cranky, I use Proactiv to keep it clear. That stuff really works.

I’m definitely scared by commitment.

After ‘Jessica Jones’ came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who felt represented, who felt like watching Jessica on screen helped them in their own lives. Women are devouring content like that because everybody is complicated; not everybody is one thing.

I didn’t know how to throw a punch – why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

Besides boutiques, I love H&M. Affordable and adorable.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

‘Bonfire’ was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when ‘Jessica Jones’ finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I’m acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

I feel really fortunate that I’ve been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don’t want to play the same thing over and over again.

My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of ‘The Defenders.’

I have a new little stray dog that I’ve had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk – he’s this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

‘Sharp Objects’ is honestly one of my most exciting reading experiences.

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We’d go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I’ve always been a big animal person.

I’m not always the first person to run out and see something I’m in. I don’t know; for me, that’s not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don’t really think about the end result. I don’t feel like I have to see it – for me, it already happened.

I’m from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

It’s hard to find that perfect dress that makes you feel like a million bucks. I’ve found a few, and I wish I could wear them over and over and over again on red carpets.

When I’m shooting, that’s all I do.

I’m all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There’s just not enough time in the day.

When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.

I live in Los Angeles, mostly, and have a lot of girlfriends and a full life out here.

I don’t fight for much, but when I fight for something, it’s usually because I think I’m going to be right.

It’s really hard to sell a script, and it’s even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

Yarn, patterns, and needle sizes have come such a long way since your grandmother’s afghans. Creatively, there is just so much to get into, so much to play with. It’s an amazing way to turn inward and get off your phone.

I love ‘House of Cards,’ I love ‘Bloodline,’ I love ‘Orange is the New Black,’ so I had written on my refrigerator that I was looking for ‘groundbreaking television on Netflix.’

I’m a total girl’s girl.

There are a lot of times when Jessica Jones is alone in her house, and there’s no dialogue. She’s rough around the edges, so getting to spend that time with her and see her be vulnerable and process the weight of her world is what makes the character so likable.

I’ve written pilots. I wrote a movie.

I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.

If we’re at a lunch table, I’m going to always sit with the girls. That’s just kind of how I am. I always gravitate towards women. I know how to communicate with women.

It’s hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can’t kick in skinny, skinny jeans.

I think backstory is really important to know because I’m all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I’m incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

I’m a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They’re things that I love, so it’s not like a work-life balance; it’s just a work-life marriage.

My parents actually wanted me to join the service.

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

I’m an actress, and I write, and I produce stuff. I have a guitar, and I have my knitting stuff. I have a lot of things going on; I love to not ever put all my energy into one thing fully.

I’ve watched ‘Clueless’ as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.

Marvel is obviously a giant, global super-brand, so being a part of that is exciting because of the huge built-in audience and the appetite for it.

I’m not a wallflower, and I encourage girls to live that way.

I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse – granted, I don’t like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line – but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models’ apartments all over.

I didn’t want to play the wife of some guy my dad’s age.

I’ve been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

I’m a weirdo. I don’t leave the house unless I have to.

After I’ve knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what’s awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

‘Daredevil’s a great show; I feel like ‘Jessica Jones’ is a great show, and I feel like they really are tapping into something.

When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you’re not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That’s where you can find the freedom. So I’m all about prep work.

I’m the only person in the entire world who has never see ‘Dawson’s Creek.’

My favorite face wash is Aveeno Foaming Face Wash, and I get it at CVS or Rite Aid. It’s the best. It gets off makeup, but it’s not drying, and you feel clean.

For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.

Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they’re doing.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it’s okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we’re talking about. About rising up.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.