Lake Bell Quotes

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

I feel very fortunate to be currently in the position where I can choose to be an actor, writer, director, or all of them at the same time. With being a mom, I've recently had a priority shift that has sort of thrusted itself on my existence, but I tend to use all experiences as something to work with. Anything that is profoundly, energy shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.

Part of why I love being an actor is the opportunity to be able to go to distant lands and take on different worlds and concepts and pretend to take on different occupations and statuses.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways. It's amazing that I get to create every day, as an actor, or a director, or a writer, and I get to do it in a variety of different genres and worlds and characterizations. I think that's the great privilege of what we do, we get to make believe. I get to go to so many different places, try on different occupations, take on different points of view. That's what's always been sort of alluring.