Carly Chaikin

Actress

33 Quotes

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

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.

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

I just love human emotion and faces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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'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've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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