Tessa Thompson quotes:

Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

Veronica Mars was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha!

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.