Gillian Jacobs Quotes

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Gillian Jacobs

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 19, 1982

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

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Actors get bored.

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I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

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Actors are all narcissists.

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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.

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NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

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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.

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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.

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I like passionate fandom.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.

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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!'

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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.

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

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

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