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" 'Callister' is feature-length, and it's one of the coolest things I've ever been asked to be a part of. It's poignant and moving and thrilling. If this was one movie, it would be an accomplishment, and they make six of them. "

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" On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder. "

Cristin Milioti

Hill

Film

Down

" I've never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in his car, and I had again lost some awful Duane Reade disaster umbrella. It was my first adult umbrella that wasn't from a drugstore, and I have left it all over New York, and every time, I went back to get it. "

" I love a band that has a banjo, that does group harmonies and yells out the word 'Hey' or 'Woo.' I live for it. "

" What I love about the Coen brothers - what everyone loves - is that they sort of toe the line of a truly dark comedy. "

" I love musicals; I just couldn't book one to save my life. "

" It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to say film or television can't be hard or challenging; it's emotional to do the same thing over and over and over. But in terms of stamina, there is nothing like an eight-show week to separate the men from the boys. "

Cristin Milioti

Week

Say

" There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating. "

" I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!' "

" In college, my voice never quite fit the classic ones like 'Music Man' or 'Carousel'. "

Cristin Milioti

Music

College

" I've never seen 'Mad Men.' "

" I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience. "

" I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd. "

" A relationship is just a giant grey thing. Just beautiful and also frustrating. And it involves everything. "

" I don't think mixtapes will ever go out of style. "

Cristin Milioti

Style

Will

" I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.' "

Cristin Milioti

Know

You

" I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13. "

" I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte. "

" Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens. "

" I'm not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That's so foreign to me. "

" It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell we had negative chemistry. He was very lovely, but you could tell. We had the chemistry of two chairs. "

" I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.' "

" I've always tried to have a pretty discerning eye with the roles that I've picked, which is maybe why it seems like I take breaks, but really, they're not breaks. It's just that there's not as much out there as one would hope. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy sometimes. "

" I've always lived in New York; I never moved to L.A. I was developing and producing and writing a pilot for a year. That took me out of everything for over a year. When that sadly didn't go forward, I shot 'Black Mirror' right after that. "

Cristin Milioti

Black

New York

" On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside! "

" I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her. "

" So many people I know are like, 'Nobody listens to Mumford and Sons anymore.' But you know what? I love Mumford and Sons. And I will listen to those albums, and I love 'em. "

" I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano. "

Cristin Milioti

Aunt

Simple

" That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light. "

" This is a public statement: I'm in favor of mixtapes. "

" I would love to hang out with Whoopi Goldberg. I was on 'The View' once, and I didn't know how to make an in there, to be like, 'What are you doing later?' But I really love Whoopi Goldberg. "

Cristin Milioti

View

Know