Quotes from Hannah Simone

My life is so crazy! I learned early on to really embrace change and enjoy the ride.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.

I am passionate about human rights.

I'm a huge cook! I'm actually trying to write my first cookbook. I make an Indian-spice Bolognese and serve it over pasta. It's a combination of flavors that people aren't used to.

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

I'm just a really big fan of street style. When I went to New York for Fashion Week, it was great to watch everyone on the runway and see all the beautiful clothes and to get ideas, but again, I think it's just about being open and looking around.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.

It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.

Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.

I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is really fun for all of us.

I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then trying to put it together that a girl here would love to wear.