Felicia Day Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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“Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.”
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“Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.”
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“Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.”
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“I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.”
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“I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.”
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“I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.”
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“I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.”
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“I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.”
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“I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.”
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“The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.”
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“It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.”
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“I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.”
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“For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.”
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“There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.”
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“Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.”
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“In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.”
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“My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.”
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“My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.”
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“When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.”
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“My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.”
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“Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.”
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“Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.”
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“People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.”
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“'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.”
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“That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.”
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“What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.”
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“I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.”
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“I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and thats why Im here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with peoples passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.”
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