[About her "Gilmore Girls" (2000) audition] "It was very unexpected. I was nervous and didn't know what I was doing. It just happened to work out".

"Before I got Gilmore Girls, I was modeling. I went in for a call and was told, "Sweetie, you need to lose two inches off those hips." I was 14. So I just replied, "I have more jobs than I can do. I'm in high school. I can't go to all the trouble of losing the two inches, so I'll pass." Someone might tell you to lose weight, but you can say no."

"Last year, I was driving to work at 5.30 in the morning, and I ended up right next to a bus that had a huge picture of me on the side of it. They were all over L.A. but it was the first time I'd seen one. I don't know if it was because it was so early or what, but that freaked me out."

[On getting recognized by fans] "It always happens in places where you'd rather not be recognized. Like one time, I was just getting ready to go to bed, but I had this craving for a glass of milk. So I go to the supermarket, and I have like no makeup on, and this couple comes up to me and they're like 'Thursday night!'. They sort of yelled it across the vegetable bin, and I'm like, 'Okay, don't look at me, I look awful. I'm going over here by the celery now.'"

[On talking about her relationship with Milo Ventimiglia]: "It's your stuff, and if you share things that are too personal with a magazine or with your public, it's sort of like it's not really yours anymore, it's shared information and it's not special to you anymore. I don't like that. I think people with personalities who like to talk about what's going on in their lives, they'll talk without really knowing how it's going to come back and bite them, and generally, it does. And luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don't really like to tell everyone my business. I'd much rather people wonder or not know."

"Well, I remember it was 5 in the morning. I'm leaving my house to go to the set of "Gilmore Girls." I'm really tired and just when I walk outside, a bus slowly goes down the street with my face on the side of it as Rory Gilmore. I thought, "Ewwww." It's so early. I just can't stand seeing me."

"A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time."

"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."

"I'd definitely like to do something darker, something... maybe an older character. You know, maybe a more conflicted character. The right project hasn't popped up yet. I read a lot... when I read the next thing, then I'll know it. I like independent films, so I'd like to do some of those."

"I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is."

"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."

"I think that's what makes life interesting-the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process."

"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV."

"Every day I learn something. Sometimes it's difficult. Especially when I have to do something that I don't normally do. Of course that's just acting."

"In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want."

"I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with."

"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange."

"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

"I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some."

"I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces."

"I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because... it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really."

"Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it."

[On doing make-out scenes] "It"s a lot more difficult than people imagine. It's very choreographed. You have to tilt your head a certain way so the camera can see both of you. You have to stay in frame. It's just so sterile."

"Love is not the way it is in the movies, and it's not some idealistic, huge, fantastic thing."

"Love is not the way it is in the movies, and it's not some idealistic, huge, fantastic thing. It's very real and personal and not what we're taught in society at all."

"My mom had put her life on hold to be with me. It made me want to do anything I could for her."

"I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces."

"I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because... it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really."

"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."

"The success of the show is overwhelming. It's like being Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party because you never know what's going to happen next."

"Go Texas!"

[On if she likes to do kissing scenes]"No, it's very uncomfortable, because everyone – it's your job, it's not romantic in any way, it's not personal, so it's just kind of, sort of ? sterile. A very sterile environment, everyone is standing around, doing their jobs."