- I love female singer-songwriters!
- I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern-day Marlon Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.
- At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.
- Reading about myself on 'Perez Hilton' was kind of the weirdest thing ever.
- I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.
- If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.
- I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.
- I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.
- Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.
- [on Supergirl (2015)] I think what's feminist about it is that it's for everyone.
- [on being a superhero fan growing up] I was a DC fan, not so much the comics. I loved Michael Keaton's Batman (1989). I grew up with those movies.
- [on her Supergirl (2015) costume] It's impossible not to feel empowered when you put it on. You would think, "Oh, it's silly. I'm putting on tights. I'm putting on a leotard and a skirt. There's muscles built into the suit. There's a cape. I'm going to feel like it's Halloween." But something changes internally. I feel like a different person almost. It really is an alter ego, where I feel inspired, hopeful and empowered.
- I think it's modest in that you can believe someone could fight for their lives in that suit without having a wardrobe malfunction and something popping out. That's what I never understood about Wonder Woman. I'm like, 'How does she fight?'
- [on on-screen female superheroes] I don't really understand why people haven't always been ready for this. I think there are so many really successful franchises right now like The Hunger Games (2012), and I was a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) fan. I wish there were more of a pattern and more of a consistency to there being really strong female-driven stories.
- I don't think I've ever hit anyone before, and so I definitely had to learn technique - like how to actually punch someone and not hurt yourself more than you're hurting the person you're punching. And core work and Pilates and [plyometrics], a lot of it.
- Kara is so optimistic, and so positive, and just full of hope all the time. My tendency can sometimes be 'Oh, man, if I were in this situation, I'd feel hopeless.' But she never feels that. There's never really a horribly dark moment in Supergirl's life.
- This job [Supergirl (2015)] is definitely teaching me to stand up for myself and to not take any -- I don't want to say a bad word. This is me being modest -- not take any crap, yeah.
- [on her role in Danny Collins (2015)] I [had] such a small role in that movie, yet every single person in that movie went to Al Pacino's house to rehearse.
- I don't think of myself as that tough, kick-ass, badass woman. I've always been a pacifist, for one, and I was [always] weirder and quirkier and dorkier.
- [on Whiplash (2014)] I had never read anything like [that script]; I mean, he has entire pages that are stage direction.
- [on the impact of wearing a hijab for her role in Patriots Day (2016)] [There was an impact] in the way I walked, the way I conducted myself, the way people talked to me. A lot of people didn't recognize me when I would come on set afterward; having changed out of it, they didn't know it was me, even though they'd spent all day with me. Immediately your vanity just vanishes. That felt like a valuable lesson to me: You can put on a garment and be a body that exists for your mind, and not externally.
- [on not meeting the real life Katherine Russell, who she plays in Patriots Day (2016)] That wasn't an option for me because of the nature of her involvement.
- I honestly prefer working on indie films. I prefer the people, I prefer a more intimate setting. That's how I find the moments that I'm looking for as an actor., but that doesn't mean I don't have respect for the other side of the business.
- I want there to always be humanity driving my work. I want to do things that I care about, that I connect to.
- [on the character of Rachel Koresh] She's not about truth, justice and the American way.
- [on playing Rachel Koresh in Waco (2018)] Some of the biggest challenges were filling in a lot of the gaps because there wasn't a lot of tangible information for me to base developing a character on. [...] There are a few accounts of her being around, but for all intents and purposes, she was sort of a mystery to me, so that was difficult. [...] Also, the challenge was that the subject matter was so heavy. Spending three months with these people, the end was truly difficult and is something that I'll carry with me, forever. It's something I don't think I'll ever shake.
- when fame and financial success are not on the agenda at all, that's when the true art form emerges. I really respect that.
- Singing is much more of a visceral thing, where you can lose yourself. But acting's like therapy to me.
- I love sitting at a pottery wheel, even if I mess up every piece I'm trying to throw. It's such a meditating and calming feeling; it kind of grounds me .
- What I find the most interesting about playing Kryptonians is that they're so squeaky clean. Be it Clark Kent or Kara Danvers, they're so all-American that sometimes you want their moral compass to stray a bit, for them to have a dilemma.
- You're as strong as you think you can be.
- Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.
- Just because you might not be happy doesn't mean you're not inspired or fulfilled or stimulated."
- I love solitude, and I'm not afraid of it.
- My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront. While everyone else in this country, for the most part, shoves them down. Especially so when it comes to women's issues, because it's such an important conversation right now, which I'm very happy about.
- It's life experience-experiencing tragedies, which we all do, experiencing heartbreak and joy and fear and love, and being open to all of it. And ready to face what the world is gonna throw at you, because it throws dodge balls at all of us. I understand things now, at almost 30 years old, that I wouldn't have at 21
- [on her Broadway debut] Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling. I will absolutely always be looking for more.
- [on her Broadway debut] I always feel very cheesy and earnest when I talk about it because it was always what I wanted to do as a kid. So I am essentially living out my childhood dream, and that's fun. But it has given me a newfound respect for what I do for a living and kind of reignited this passion that I have.
- [on the Supergirl (2015) Season 5 costume update] I just think it's more adult. Part of my goal in this whole series for whenever the show ends, I just want there to be a very clear arc for this character that she evolved as a woman and found her femininity and her adulthood, just a self-discovery.
- [on her directorial debut on Supergirl (2015) ] I've been wanting to direct since season 3, but couldn't last year because of scheduling conflicts, so [co-star] David Harewood did it first. I just felt really drawn to it for a couple of seasons now, just because you know the show so well, and you get to know the character, and the world, and the tone of the show so well that you can't help but envision certain scenes in a certain way. I want to play with that.
- [on the end of Supergirl (2015)] I don't really think it's set in. I definitely felt a different kind of closure when we wrapped on set, very bittersweet. I felt all the emotions you could feel in the last two weeks of shooting that show. But I think once the final episode airs, and I know that I really don't have to go back up to Vancouver to shoot, that's when it'll probably set in.
- [on the possibility of returning to the role of Supergirl (2015)] I am not opposed to putting on the suit again and I know there probably will be opportunities to. It would have to feel right for the character and I know they would probably do it justice. I love playing with Grant Gustin. I love Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch on Superman & Lois (2021). So no, I'm not opposed to it.
- [on Sasha Calle's being cast as Supergirl] The more Supergirls, the better. The world needs as many Supergirls as it can get.
- [on Milly Alcock being cast as Supergirl] I think that the character, and the IP of Supergirl, is so iconic for a reason, because she is such a fantastic role model for young women. [...] To see how young women will look at you, and to see themselves in the character, and to feel empowered by it, and to feel like super girls themselves. So, I hope that [Alcock] feels that. And I hope that she's OK with the wire work and flying [laughs]!
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