Top 35 Krysten Ritter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Krysten Ritter

2. “I’m a weirdo. I don’t leave the house unless I have to.”

— Krysten Ritter

3. “Law school teaches you one thing above all: how to speak while saying absolutely nothing.”

— Krysten Ritter

4. “I don’t normally do shoots in bikinis – I’m just not that kind of girl. But for ‘Maxim’ I was like, ‘Bring it on!’ I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I’d go for it!”

— Krysten Ritter

5. “I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.”

— Krysten Ritter

6. “I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.”

— Krysten Ritter

7. “On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We’d go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I’ve always been a big animal person.”

— Krysten Ritter

8. “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.”

— Krysten Ritter

9. “I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I’m acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.”

— Krysten Ritter

10. “The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.”

— Krysten Ritter

11. “I have a new little stray dog that I’ve had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk – he’s this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.”

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12. “You always want your work to be seen as long as it’s good.”

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13. “When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what’s happening.”

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14. “I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.”

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15. “I like to audition for good projects because if it’s a good project, it’s an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.”

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16. “I’ve always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you’re traveling from movie set to movie set. So I’ve never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.”

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17. “In town, he wore his religion like armor, and somehow that kept him untouchable. At home, he wielded it like a weapon.”

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18. “When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you’re not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That’s where you can find the freedom. So I’m all about prep work.”

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19. “If it’s a good audition, whether or not I think I’m going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.”

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20. “I think that’s who you should be servicing as an actor is the fans. You don’t wanna alienate new people from coming in, but you gotta first and foremost service your fans.”

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21. “I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.”

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22. “Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don’t look none too pretty when they come up.”

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23. “Memories are like fire, and need only a little oxygen to grow.”

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24. “I know now that there’s a hole inside me. A hole that can’t be patched or filled with files or paperwork or legal cases or new clothes or miles or happy hours or bartenders. This was never about the water. It’s not even about Kaycee, not really. It’s about me.”

— Krysten Ritter

25. “The problem is that people think in black and white. They think they can have the good without the bad. But everything that’s good for one person is probably bad for someone else. Life isn’t like the Bible says it is. It isn’t a choice between good and evil. It’s about choosing which evils you can stand.”

— Krysten Ritter

26. “I always want the things that hurt most.”

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27. “When did other people’s happiness start feeling like assault? But the answer comes quickly, and brings a bad taste to my mouth. Always. I didn’t ever stop feeling excluded. I just started to wear it and pretend it was my choice. Maybe that’s why I was drawn to the law of poisoned things, and hurt people, and scabby chemical earth. Maybe toxic is the only thing I really understand.”

— Krysten Ritter

28. “Your problem, Abby, isn’t that you can’t draw. It’s that you can’t see.”

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29. “Some of us are out of place even when we are home.”

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30. “Barrens has it’s roots in me. If I want it gone forever, I’ll have to cut them out myself.”

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31. “Heaven is for redeemed sinners, he said, after hours of silence. Dogs don’t need it. They live their whole lives in heaven.”

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32. “The past is a trick of the mind. It’s a story we misunderstand over and over.”

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33. “Nothing was ever her fault. She was immune to guilt, and her memory worked like one of those old gold sifting pans, shaking away all the dirt, all the bad stuff, leaving intact only the things she really wanted to remember, the things that made her look good.”

— Krysten Ritter

34. “I’m sorry,” I say, without knowing exactly what I’m sorry for. For your daughter, for her job, for that sophomore behind the Dumpsters, men who get to do anything they want, and the people who are taken advantage of. Because isn’t that, ultimately, what the case comes down to? There are people of the world who squeeze and the ones who suffocate.”

— Krysten Ritter

35. “The past is just a story we tell.”

— Krysten Ritter