Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by Alexandra Daddario
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.
I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.
Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.
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.
Nobody is all good or bad.
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.
My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.
If you had told me ten years ago that I would be able to go and make out with Will Forte one day and then Woody Harrelson the next, it would have blown my mind.
I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.
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.
I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.
I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.
I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.
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.
'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 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.
When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.
I was lucky because when I'd done 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,' I had to have extensive weapons training.
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.
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.
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.
Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.
What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.
I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
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'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.
My favorite go-to is Topshop. They have great stuff.
My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.
I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.
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'd love to do a period piece.
Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.
My mom wears a lot of gold.
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 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.
I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.
When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.
I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice - very cliche actress.
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.
One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.
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.
I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
'True Detective' did change my career.
I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
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'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'
I'm very into fantasy films.
When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
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 like comedies in general.
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.
You never know what's really going to hit.
All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.
You remember where you were doing each scene. 'Oh my God, it was so hot that day.' It's kind of cool to see a movie that you haven't seen in a long time and reflect on that stuff.
It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.
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.
That's a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.
It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.
I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.
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