Gillian Jacobs quotes
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“The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.”
-- Gillian JacobsSource : Source: collider.com
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“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.”
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“No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.”
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“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.”
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“While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.”
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“I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.”
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“Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.”
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“I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.”
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“We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.”
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“I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.”
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“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.”
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“They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.”
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“It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.”
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“I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.”
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“There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.”
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“I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.”
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“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.”
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“My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.”
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“My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.”
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“Inspiration strikes at very funny times.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.”
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“You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.”
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“My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.”
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“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 JacobsSource : "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.
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“NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.”
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“You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.”
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“It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on”
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“I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.”
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