I've been acting since I was 11.
— Alexandra Daddario
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 like comedies in general.
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.
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 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.
Nobody is all good or bad.
I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.
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.
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.
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.
What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.
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 don't call him 'The Rock' to his face.
It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.
One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.
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.
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'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'
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.
I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice - very cliche actress.
I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.
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.
My mom wears a lot of gold.
I'm a huge fan of Bill Macy, so working with him in any capacity was exciting for me.
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.
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 think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.
I love my rabbit, my family rabbit.
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.
All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.
It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.
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.
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.
I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.
I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.
Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.
It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.
I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
My favorite go-to is Topshop. They have great stuff.
'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.
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.
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 always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.
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 feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.
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.
Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
That would make a great Instagram photo - me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.
