Hannah Simone Quotes

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.

The hardest part of my job, daily, is to not laugh while we shoot.

As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.

The greatest thing about ‘New Girl’ is that you never can predict what is next!

I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

It’s aspirational for me. I’ve lived as a cat lady. I’m happy to be a cat lady. I’ll continue to be a cat lady. Just bring them all to my house, and I’ll keep them all, no problem.

I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I’ll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

An eyelash curler changes your entire face. It opens your eyes up.

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

My cats, Jacob and Frank, mean the world to me, and by partnering once again with Fresh Step with the power of Febreze, I’m raising awareness for its Million Meow Mission to help every shelter cat find a forever home.

All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show – which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

The Weeknd is the dopeness.

I love when I go back to London. I love how the girls dress there.

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.

When I lived in India, I’d speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I’m good with accents.

I should give a TED Talk about my TV-marathoning skills. It’s my sport.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it’s the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

I guess there are all these women with a big secret – they’re hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: ‘I’ve been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can’t give him up even though he‘s embarrassing.’

You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you’re in the role of a father or a husband, you don’t have to remind yourself that you shouldn’t tell your wife to hold the messages. If you do, that marriage is not going to last very long.

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.

If you’re not a workout person, go there 75 percent fast asleep. Anybody who has ever been in one of my workout classes knows I’m there practically in my pajamas!

Most high-level models that I’ve ever met are actually well-travelled; they’re cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

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.

Clinique’s Chubby Stick Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Chunky Cherry is perfect for people with my skin tone.

‘Curvy‘ is just a polite way of saying ‘fat.’

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.

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.

People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it’s not going to work out well for you.

Flirting is funny. And it’s awkward and weird.

I’ve never been on a date.

I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, ‘This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you’re in this in the first place.’ So I was like, ‘Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.’ And so that’s what I started doing.

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

I worked at the United Nations.

I would not give up my eyelash curler.

I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I’m addicted.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It’s been a huge life lesson for me.

A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.

I am passionate about human rights.

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.

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

I’m not afraid of change, let’s put it that way.

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

The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is authenticity. So if you’re just real in those moments, no matter what you’re doing, that’s what translates and makes you successful.