Gillian Jacobs Quotations

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.

Fresh Air I listen to, like, every day.

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

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

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

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

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?

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

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.

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

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

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

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 had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

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

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

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

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.

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.

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.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

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

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

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.

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.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

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 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.

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.

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.

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.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

'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.'

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 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.

I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

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!'

The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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 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.

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

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

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

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.

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

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

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.

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.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

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.

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

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

It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

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

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We're all alone in this world.

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 think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

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 did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

I also have learned as an actor, this ties in the principles of improv, sometimes someone gives a piece of instruction and my first reaction is "I don't want to do that." I've always learned that every time I just say yes and go for it something happens. Whether it's what the intent of the direction was or not or something new happens. It's just remaining open to other people's ideas.

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

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

There's no way to know what's going to happen.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.

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

A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

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

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

I always try to have a bigger picture view of my career. But that didn't mean that I didn't cry about not getting jobs.