Quotes from Carly Chaikin

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

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.

I just love human emotion and faces.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

'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 love games. When I first saw 'Celebrity Family Feud,' I literally, in all caps, emailed my team and was like, 'Why am I not on this?'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.