Kristen Bell: I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
(on her character, Veronica and Logan) Kristen: I love Jason [Dohring], but I don't really care for Logan. He doesn't treat Veronica like she deserves to be treated. I think Duncan treated [her right]. I want to see a man who steps up to the plate and stops screwing around as Logan does. If my boyfriend were sleeping with another woman at the same time, I'd be like, "See ya." But for some reason Veronica hangs around. The characters they developed have a very charismatic relationship, and I know the fans love them together.
Kristen (on being nominated for an Emmy): I'm not really into judging my merits or the merits of the show in contests like that. I know we're doing a great job.
Kristen (on which musical she is dying to do): Oh, god, there are thousands. I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.
(On being a vegetarian) Kristen: I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with-dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.
(On Chris Lowell's character Piz on 'Veronica Mars') Kristen: He's goofy, and he is silly, and he talks too fast, and he's a little too energetic for his own good, and he's charismatic in a completely different way than Jason plays Logan.
(On karaoke) Kristen: I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little Time After Time. I can do a little Grease Lightning. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
(On Veronica and Duncan's relationship on 'Veronica Mars') Kristen: There was a very Romeo and Juliet sense to Veronica and Duncan's love life. They wanted to be together and couldn't be, which this only amplifies.
(On following 'Gilmore Girls' on the CW next season) Kristen: (WB shows like 'Gilmore') have a handle on the demographic we drool over.
(On being a few units short of completing her degree in drama at NYU) Kristen: The weird thing is they gave me credit for bringing people coffee (as an intern), but they wouldn't give me credit for being on a Broadway stage every night.
(On her father-daughter chemistry with on-screen dad Enrico Colantoni) Kristen: They did some testing on our scenes, and they said it went through the roof! Something at the network, like they had monkeys watch it or something.
(Kristen had personal experience to draw on in playing a teen whose best friend died young. When she was 18 she lost her best friend to an auto accident.) Kristen: When you have a loss at such a young age, you become bitter and jaded and your whole perspective changes. Veronica wouldn't be who she is without it.
(On casting Kristen in the role of Veronica Mars) Show creator Rob Thomas: Veronica out-savvies people. Kristen has to play really, really smarter than you. Hiring this NYU-trained Broadway actress is so much different from casting another pretty L.A. girl.
Kristen: I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.
Kristen: I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
(From Maxim Magazine on her steamy bathtub scene in the horror film Pulse) Kristen: There aren't many suds, but they shot it very tastefully.
(on her favourite episodes of Veronica Mars)Kristen: I have two. I really liked the episode, I think it was 3 - the episode where we saw the flashback of where Duncan and Lilly and Logan and Veronica went to prom. ["The Wrath of Con"]. It was the first time that they really delved into the history behind all of those characters, and I thought that that was really cool and very moving to see how they all used to be so close, and how the sort of shattered lives that they live now. And I also - I really liked the purity test one. I thought it was so much fun. And we all ended up printing out the purity test, among the crew and stuff, and we all took it, and just giggled the whole week about our scores and stuff. So we were making jokes and posting letters on peoples' chairs and stuff.
Kristen: I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
(On his relationship with Kristen) Enrico Colatoni: It's rare when two actors like each other so much. And slowly, I have become a surrogate father to her. And I guess she's a surrogate daughter. But my feelings for her were immediately paternal, and loving and I just appreciate her so much, and I think that's what comes off for both of us.
(On whether she is a Logan or a Duncan girl) Kristen Bell: I gotta go with Duncan. All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.
(On Pulse co-star Ian Somerhalder) Kristen Bell: I don't have a problem with Ian. Ian is just too pretty.
Kristen tells PARADE magazine (April 30, 2006), Veronica Mars will take the next three years of my life. But I’m green with envy at my pals who are working now on Broadway. I love musicals, and I love singing.
(On the mysteries on Veronica Mars) Kristen: When I see a mystery, like a movie or a TV show, I want to know the details. So I figured when I got cast that I would be able to have all the inside info and know what's going on, but I really don't. They don't tell me anything. It's just as frustrating as being a viewer being on the show because I really only know details two weeks in advance – I don't know who killed Lilly. But I do like mysteries a lot, and what I think is cool is that it's fun to see the intelligence behind it, in a script, to see, 'Oh my gosh, THAT'S how she pieced it together.'
(On publicity from Veronica Mars) Kristen Bell: In the beginning, [the press] was centered a lot around me and the ensemble didn't do much at all. Now, once a month, we do a mall tour where we go to a different city and do a big signing and the whole cast is there. That has a much more ensemble feeling and that takes a lot of the pressure off because you're going as one.
Kristen may not be back as Veronica Mars since the show is most probably canceled. But Kristen will be back on the CW's new show "Gossip Girl" as the gossip girl narrator.
Kristen was nominated for a Satellite Award in the category, Best Actress in a Drama, Television, to be awarded on 12/17/06.
Movie appearances in 2002: Neko no ongaeshi (The Cat Returns) (voice: English version) as Hiromi.
Kristen appeared on the cover of Shape magazine in August 2006.
Kristen recently bought a new house, which she is renovating to Green standards with the help of new Veronica Mars co-star Ed Begley Jr.
Kristen appeared on the CW Network preview show. Her bangs kept getting in her eyes and she said that plot lines for this season are top secret.
Became a vegetarian at about age 11 because she "couldn't disassociate between hamburger and my dog." Also was traumatized by dry, chewy Detroit pork chops.
Kristen was in Polish Wedding, though uncredited. She was a high school senior and the film was shot in her hometown.
Movie appearances in 2006: Flatland: The Movie as Hex Roman as The Girl Pulse as Mattie Webber Fifty Pills as Gracie.
Voted "Best Looking Girl" by her Royal Oak High School senior class.
As a high school senior, Kristen worked at TCBY in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Kristen was a celebrity guest for the Superman Returns premiere.
Kristen is featured in the June 2006 issue of Spin.
Her favorite episode of "Veronica Mars" (2004) (as of 2006) is "The Wrath of Con" (Episode 1.4).
Kristen was named the "Sexiest Female Vegetarian" by PETA for 2006. Her male counterpart was Prince. What a couple, they'd make!
Kristen has been featured three times in TV Guide, twice being interviewed.
Kristen says her sister having a baby is way more important than shooting an episode of Veronica Mars.
Kristen has blue eyes.
In 2005, Kristen was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice TV Breakout Performance -- Female" for Veronica Mars.
In 2005, Kristen was nominated for a Satellite Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television" for Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical.
Kristen is 5'1.
Kristen is in the movie "Pootie Tang." She appears only in the credits.
Movie appearances in 2005: The Receipt as Pretty Girl Deepwater as Nurse Laurie Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (TV) as Mary Lane
Kristen played the title role in Sneaux!, the SINsational Gothic Figure Skating Musical on the Los Angeles stage in 2003.
Kristen played a 13 year old in Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music at Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Summer 2004.
Kristen competed in the Emmy Idol competition in 2005's Emmy Award Ceremonies. She sang the theme song from "Fame," in which her Veronica Mars co-star Erica Gimpel appeared.
Kristen attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan. There she was known as "Annie Bell", because "Annie" was her favorite musical.
Kristen's picture on front of a hockey ticket when she was younger. It was of her and the Stanley Cup. It is the most illustrious prize in hockey.
Kristen loves the Detroit Red Wings.
When she Kristen was younger, she hated being called Kristen.
Kristen made some of her earliest on-screen appearances in Bar Mitzvah videos during her days at Norup Middle School.
Kristin participated and sang at the Los Angeles Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in 2004.
Kristin appears in the almost all together in the "11 People You Want to See Naked, Right Now-Right Where You Want Them" feature in the Summer 2005 issue of Jane Magazine.
For those interested in seeing Kristen display some dramatic chops, you might keep an eye out for Gracie's Choice which played on Lifetime recently. Knowing that network, the Bell vehicle will be shown again and again. In GC, Kristen plays a high schooler force to fend for herself and her two younger brothers when abandoned by their drug-addicted mom (scarily played by Anne Heche).
Kristen's dogs, Lola and Mr. Shakes, qualified for an SAG card by appearing in the 'Hot Dogs' episode of Veronica Mars.
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