Top 100 Gillian Jacobs Quotes
#1. A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'
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#3. 'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
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#5. 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.
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#6. 'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.
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#7. My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
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#14. 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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#15. I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.
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#16. I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
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#17. 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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#19. It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.
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#21. I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
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#23. On the set of 'Community,' we quote 'Community' to each other. We're a lost cause. We're like a bunch of little kids running around and yelling things.
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#24. A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
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#25. When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.
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#26. I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.
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#27. 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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#28. I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'
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#29. I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#34. 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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#35. You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
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#36. I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#40. 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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#41. I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.
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#42. 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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#43. Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
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#44. When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.
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#45. We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
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#46. I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#50. 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.
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#51. I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.
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#54. 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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#56. I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.
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#57. 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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#58. My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
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#59. I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
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#60. 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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#61. The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
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#62. 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?
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#64. I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.
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#65. In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#69. I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
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#70. When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.
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#75. We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
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#76. 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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#78. 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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#79. Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
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#80. I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
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#81. 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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#82. I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
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#83. I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.
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#84. I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.
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#88. 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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#89. 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.
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#90. Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
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#91. I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.
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#92. They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.
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#94. 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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#95. 'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.
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#96. You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.
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#98. 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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#99. I've been making Vine videos for a couple of months. They're just six-second little videos, but I really have fun doing them. It's just fun to feel like you created something.
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#100. Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.
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