Alexandra Daddario

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.

That's a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.

I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.

It's really amazing to see what you imagined brought to screen.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

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.

That would make a great Instagram photo - me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.

I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherface was, but I had never seen any of the films, so I didn't know what the meaning behind it was.

One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.

Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

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.

All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.

I don't call him 'The Rock' to his face.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

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.

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.

I love my rabbit, my family rabbit.

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

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.

I love the 'Percy Jackson' movies. That was my big break. I love the people I worked with. It was a really magical experience for me.

I've been acting since I was 11.

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've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

Having dinner with somebody you've looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, 'Wow. I'm having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.' That's intense.

I'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'

I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

I like comedies in general.

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.

When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.

I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice - very cliche actress.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

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.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog.

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.

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.

'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'm a huge fan of Bill Macy, so working with him in any capacity was exciting for me.

Nobody is all good or bad.

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.