"I know that she's friends with Hayden [Panettiere] and I know that she's friends with Zach [Quinto]. I saw Zach the other day and he was very excited about her coming on board." - Jack Coleman

"Last summer, after the HEROES panel at Comic-Con, two of our writers, Joe Pokaski and Aron Eli Coleite were riding from San Diego to LA on the train. Sitting in the same car, they saw Zach Quinto and Kristen Bell – who, as it turns out, are old-time best friends." - Greg Beeman

"She hangs out with Zach all the time" - Joseph Loeb on Heroes Unmasked 2x08

"And there are people on the show who are really good friends off the set, like Kristen and Zach and now they have a storyline together and so you get wonderful chemistry" - Allan Arkush

"I really loved the scenes between Zachary Quinto and Kristen Bell. I've always like Elle, but some of her dialogue has been terrible and her spunky rebellion was boring. I liked seeing her vulnerability, and I thought she did great playing off of Zach." - TVGuide

"Knowing that Kristen Bell and Zachary Quinto are good friends in real-life and that he's part of the reason she got this role, it makes these scenes that much more enjoyable." - BuddyTV

J: "These two are so great together, you know they're really close friends, and they've got this wonderful chemistry, and are just very at ease with each other."
A: "Yeah, it was particularly fun to work with them. She's a real team player. For someone who's been a lead on a tv series, she really knows how to make everyone around her seem better."
A: "With the pie line. And there's one more thing about this, they were just so terrific together, their smiles back and forth."
A: "They were so good together, I never used the coverage til much much later."
J: "But that's, you know, their chemistry together, is great." - Heroes 3x08 Commentary

"I think that Kristen has a real following obviously in this world and then in television in general so I'm sure that she was somebody that they've talked about along the way. We were at Comic-Con at the same time this year and we came back on the train with a couple of the writers and they ended up talking about this new character that they were going to have on the show. She was sort of talking to them and she forged her own relationship with them and I think that also had something to do with it." - comingsoon.net

"Kristen and I have been friends for years. We actually decided to take the train back from July’s Comic Con. And as we were waiting in line for the train, we ran into HEROES writers Joe Pokaski, Aron Eli Coleite and Michael Green.” Elaborates the watchmaker, “Turns out they were actually writing scenes for the character that would become Kristen’s. So it was really interesting to get a text message from her a week later saying — Hey, some really great news. Call me when you get this, or I can just tell you when I see you on the set of OUR show." thetvaddict.com

"I'm Kristen's inner most thoughts" - EW.com

"I love you" - EW.com

"She's always got my back.." - E! Online

"She and I have been friends for a while and ended up taking the train back up together" - Heroes Unmasked 2x08

"Well I just love Kristen all around. I love working with her. I love hanging out with her. I think she has a really great energy and a novel actress. So any time I get to work with her is a good time." - MovieWeb

"Crossword puzzles. I can get through to Wednesday, maybe Thursday of the New York Times' puzzles. Kristen and I do them." - People

"No, she just has to deal with the fact that I'm a lot better. Just kidding. Sort of. " - People