Gillian Jacobs Quotes - Page 4

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film, there are always far more roles for men. That's always been true. When I went to college, I went to Julliard. At that time - and I don't know if this is still true - they always selected fewer women than men for the program, because there were so few roles for women in plays. That was sort of acknowledgment for me of the fact that writers write more roles for men than they do for women.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

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 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.

Without agreement you just have people arguing.

When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in LA, where it feels like you walk into a coffee shop and you see 15 laptops with screenplays being written.

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.

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.