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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I'm so hyper-aware of everything around me and everyone and everything that people do.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“I just love human emotion and faces.”