Gillian Jacobs Quotes

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

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?

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.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

I like the Moth podcast a lot. I listen to that.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.

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

There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.

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

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

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making decisions. It's not as much like when you do a narrative, fictional piece, and you have a certain number of shooting days, and you're like, "Well, that's what it is." You can continue to seek out more photographs or try to find more footage. The genre gives you the ability to keep working on it, which is great for a first-time director.

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.

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

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.

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

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.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

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.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

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

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

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

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

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.

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.

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.

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.