Top 100 Gillian Jacobs Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
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#3. I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.
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#4. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
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#5. I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.
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#6. My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?
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#7. When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
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#8. I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#13. The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
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#14. I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'
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#15. I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
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#16. My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
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#17. 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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#18. I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.
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#22. In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'
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#23. You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.
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#24. 'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.
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#25. 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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#27. I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.
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#29. 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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#30. I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.
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#31. 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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#32. I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.
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#33. I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.
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#34. I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
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#35. I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.
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#36. I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
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#37. Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
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#38. I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.
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#39. 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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#40. I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.
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#41. When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.
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#42. A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
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#44. I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
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#47. 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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#48. I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.
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#49. You have to have an awareness of where you're going, what the event is, what you're promoting, and who the audience is. That always informs the way you dress.
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#50. I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
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#51. My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.
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#59. We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
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#60. Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.
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#64. 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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#65. I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes ... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.
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#66. You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
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#67. I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.
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#69. Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.
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#70. I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.
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#71. 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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#72. I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
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#73. I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
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#74. Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
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#75. 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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#76. I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.
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#77. A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.
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#78. What I think is a really special movie is 'Black and White' with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, which Mike Binder directed. I got to see a screening of it, and I think Kevin and Octavia and Anthony Mackie and Bill Burr all give such beautiful performances in that movie.
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#79. 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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#80. I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.
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#86. There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.
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#87. 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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#90. While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.
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#91. 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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#92. You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
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#93. 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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#94. Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.
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#95. 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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#96. I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.
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#97. I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
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#98. Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
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#99. I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.
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#100. For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.
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