Carly Chaikin Quotes

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.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared.

- Carly Chaikin

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?'

- Carly Chaikin

I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

- Carly Chaikin

Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

I just love human emotion and faces.

- Carly Chaikin

I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

When people wear dresses, I want to wear pants and vice versa.

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin

All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.

- Carly Chaikin

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

- Carly Chaikin

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

- Carly Chaikin

There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.

- Carly Chaikin

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.

- Carly Chaikin