Gillian Jacobs Quotes

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Gillian Jacobs

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 19, 1982

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?'

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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.

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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.

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

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I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

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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.

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I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.

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Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

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

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

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'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.'

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

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

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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.

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

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

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I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

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

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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.

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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.

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