Gillian Jacobs Quotes

I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

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

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

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

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.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own.

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

The main fun of being an actor is that you get to bounce around to a lot of different worlds.

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.

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

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

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

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.

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

It is important to stop being critical and judging ideas as good or bad because I think if somebody doesn't have a lot of experience you worry their idea is going to be bad, it's not going to be good enough, if not going to be active enough and so you can start to think critically about people's suggestions or what they bring to it but once you get out of that and think whatever they come up with is the right thing right now and so I'm just going to build on it just makes everything so much easier and better.

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

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

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'

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.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

I first came to LA auditioning during pilot season. I didn't really know anyone. The only people I'd meet were the girls I was up against at auditions. It wasn't the friendliest bunch.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

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.

We're all alone in this world.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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 that it is important to establish a world of place for the characters in improv and there is nothing to be gained from disagreeing about that. So you have to establish the principle that if some person establishes one thing we're all going to go along with it and that we are all building from it.

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

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

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

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.

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

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

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.

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

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.

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.

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

I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways!