Elizabeth Banks Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'”
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“I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.”
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“It's really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day”
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“I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?”
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“I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.”
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“I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.”
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“I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.”
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“I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.”
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“The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention.”
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“I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.”
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“There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?”
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“I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.”
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“I love stories about misfits and underdogs.”
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“It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.”
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“So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?”
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“It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.”
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“I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.”
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“I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.”
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“I'm sort of the bossiest sister.”
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“I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.”
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“I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.”
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“As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.”
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“I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.”
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“You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.”
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“You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.”
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“You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.”
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“Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.”
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“Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.”
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“I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.”
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