Best 126 quotes of Gillian Jacobs on MyQuotes

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

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

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?

After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what they're going to do with it in the editing room, what they're going to cut out, which take they're going to use. You know, your control is very limited. As a director, it's ultimately your piece. You have a lot more responsibility, but you also have a lot more creative control. It's scary, but also liberating in a way.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

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 also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

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.

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

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

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

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.

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

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

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

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

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

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.

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.