Gillian Jacobs quotes

The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Nice #Film #Goofs

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Thinking #Partners #Deals

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Actors #Want #Greedy

I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Running #Car #Eating

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Home #Want #Tvs

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Eye #Hard Times #People

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Night #Skins #Bed

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Rocks #Community

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mom #Kids #Fighting

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#College #Saving #Littles

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Skills #Acting #Use

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Cute #Wrestling #Trying

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Long #Bergman #Intermission

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Dancer #Awkward #Singers

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Wish #Bridesmaids

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Running #New York #Cities

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Fans #Might

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Kids #Thinking #Directors

They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Juilliard #Sides #Goofy

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mean #Laughing #Doe

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Yelling #Done #Insult

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Tv Shows #Comfort #Degrees

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Moths

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#People #Community #Directors

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Laughing #Grandfather #Faces

My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Feet #Three #Four

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Thinking #Gentleman #Faces

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Fall #Thinking #Trying

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Fun #Adults #Way

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Sweet #Fun #Kissing

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Fire #Dolls #Shows

I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Thinking #Years #Glee

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Jobs #Mean #Thinking

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Inspiration #Strikes

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Kind #Force #Forces Of Nature

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#People #Office #Female

I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Girl #Kissing #Community

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Kids #Justice #Acting

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Unique #Careers #Actors

I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Jobs #Powerful #Mean

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mom #Lame #Concerts

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Drama #Want #Serious

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mom #School #Clothes

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Blow #Thinking #Giving

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#School #College #Thinking

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mom #Faces #Cruise

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Mean #Icons #Feminist

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Nbc #Giving #Legs

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#People #Sometimes #Convince

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Nice #Years #Circles

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Trying #Different #Way

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Past #Want #Horrible

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Magazines #Want #Sometimes

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Shooting #Daylight #Clubs

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Analogies #Hats

I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.
-- Gillian Jacobs

#Fashion #Lines #Canyons