Top 183 Quotes & Sayings by Gillian Jacobs - Page 2

Hey, I'm nothing but honest!

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.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

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.

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.

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

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

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

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.

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.

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.

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

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

'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.'

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

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.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm a terrible cook.

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.

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

I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

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.

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?'

I troll Instagram, Style.com, Elle.com.

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