Judy Greer Quotes

#1. In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

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#2. Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

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#3. For dinner I had 20 ounces of coffee and 5 Kraft singles. Am I going to die?

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#4. I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

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#5. Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid.

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#6. When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

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#7. 'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

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#8. I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

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#9. The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

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#10. I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

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#11. At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

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#12. I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.

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#13. If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

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#14. I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.

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#15. Well, that episode was the last straw, as my mom explains it, and the Nun Boss basically fired my mom, but even though she was a failed nun and never got to marry God, she went home feeling as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

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#16. I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

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#17. I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.

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#18. Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

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#19. I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

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#20. I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out.

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#21. You've heard the phrase 'There are no small roles, just small actors?' Well, I kind of disagree. There are small roles, but when you get a lot of them in a row, you can become a pretty successful actress, and that's what I've done.

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#22. I firmly believe that everyone should have to work in the food service industry at least once in their lives.

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#23. I haven't met loads of asshole only children. If you fill a room with all the assholes you know, I bet that most of them have siblings.

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#24. Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

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#25. It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.

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#26. It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

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#27. I'm a nice girl from the Detroit area - Livonia, to be exact.

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#28. It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

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#29. I really love this character I played called Becky Freeley in a T.V. show called 'Miss Guided'. We only shot seven episodes, and nobody watched it, and it was on for, like, a second, but I really liked that character.

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#30. The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

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#31. I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.

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#32. Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

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#33. I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

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#34. I'm sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it's really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don't really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colore salad - it's my favorite.

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#35. I think because bullying has really become such a problem right now, I think it's maybe going to be more impactful right now, just because of where that is in society and how much more we're hearing about it.

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#36. I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

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#37. I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

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#38. I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.

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#39. I am very reluctantly healthy.

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#40. I had Madonna parties; I dressed like Madonna, and I had all of her records because we had records back then. I knew all of her lyrics; I was obsessed with her movies and the whole thing.

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#41. I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

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#42. The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.

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#43. There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate.

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#44. For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

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#45. I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right?

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#46. I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

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#47. Being homesick is good-it means I am happy in my real life.

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#48. I slept in the car a lot on those trips. To this day, anytime I am in the car for an extended period of time, I get so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.

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#49. I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

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#50. I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

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#51. I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie.

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#52. I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

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#53. When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.

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#54. I'm on a steady diet of Subway, red wine and NyQuil.

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#55. I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.

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#56. My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.

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#57. Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

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#58. I love Cate Blanchett; I think she's brilliant.

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#59. My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

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#60. I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

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#61. I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

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#62. 'Reluctantly Healthy' is so completely different than what I do for a living. It's really what I wanted it to be, which is learning to be healthy.

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#63. I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool.

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