Amanda Seyfried will always be grateful for her role in Mean Girls.

During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Seyfried reminisced about the 2004 teen comedy, reflecting on the “unadulterated fun” she had filming it at the age of 17.

Host Josh Horowitz reminded her of the film’s lasting popularity, saying, “Until the day you die, a 14-year-old girl will come up to you every day and quote you as if it just came out the day before.”

Seyfried responded with a smile, “I hope they quote it on my grave.” She went on, “That’s an organic moment. It was, in many ways, a perfect movie, and people relate to it, still. It connected us, and it continues to. I will always be excited to talk about it,” adding, “Any day, I’ll honor that movie for what it did for me as a person.”

Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey, also featured Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caplan, and Fey. The movie follows Cady Heron (Lohan), a sheltered teenager who, after years of homeschooling in Africa, starts at an American high school. She quickly becomes popular with The Plastics, an exclusive clique, until she falls for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of the group’s leader, Regina George (McAdams).

Reflecting on her experience, Seyfried shared with Horowitz, “I truly think the experience of making it has nothing to do with how well it did, for sure. I think the experience for me is very specific, because I’d never been in a movie before. I’d never been on a set like that before. And I was working with people who had. So, for me, it was just, everything was new.”

In 2011, Mean Girls was followed by Mean Girls 2, featuring a completely different cast and storyline. A new musical adaptation of the movie, based on the 2018 Broadway production, was released in 2024.