I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.
Any time you get to play or dress differently or look differently, as an actress, that's incredibly exciting.
I love 'House of Cards,' I love 'Bloodline,' I love 'Orange is the New Black,' so I had written on my refrigerator that I was looking for 'groundbreaking television on Netflix.'
The thing about Netflix is that you get more minutes in your episode because there are no commercial breaks. You have time to let things breathe and be quiet. You get to see an entire scene play out instead of just jumping halfway in.
If someone says, 'I love 'Jessica Jones!'' I just say, 'Thanks, I love you back!'
What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.
I have a lot of girlfriends. That's sort of my whole thing is, I have really, really deep friendships, more so than anybody I've ever met.
If they want to do a 'Defenders 2,' I'm in.
I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'
I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.
I worked with my acting coach one-on-one for hours and hours, every single day for two months, before even setting foot on set or putting on Jessica Jones's clothes.
After 'Jessica Jones' came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who felt represented, who felt like watching Jessica on screen helped them in their own lives. Women are devouring content like that because everybody is complicated; not everybody is one thing.
I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.
When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.
When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.
Jessica Jones is such a great part, and I do serious work on it. I feel really creatively fulfilled.
I'm definitely scared by commitment.
For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.
I live in Los Angeles, mostly, and have a lot of girlfriends and a full life out here.
I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.
Marvel has, like, 9,000 characters. They could do a horror movie tomorrow and call it Marvel. They can do anything.
I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!
I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.
I'm a lanky girl, naturally.
Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they're doing.
I read the entire 'Alias' series. I devoured them.
I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking head or an actor reading lines.
My gram taught me to knit when I was little, and then I came across my old knitting tools when I was cleaning out my closets after 'JJ' season one and got right back into it.
I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.
I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.
I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.
My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'
I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.