110+ Gillian Jacobs Quotes On Bear, Community And Instagram

Gillian Jacobs is an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community. She has also appeared in films such as Hot Tub Time Machine, Walk of Shame, and Don't Think Twice. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Gillian Jacobs on love, life, bear.

Top 10 Gillian Jacobs Quotes

1. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
2. I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.
3. 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?
4. 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.
5. I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
6. I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.
7. I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
8. I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
9. I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
10. 'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

Gillian Jacobs Short Quotes

• Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.
• When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
• The main fun of being an actor is that you get to bounce around to a lot of different worlds.
• NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.
• I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.
• You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.
• You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
• You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
• I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
• I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

Gillian Jacobs Quotes About Love

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon. — Gillian Jacobs

It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own. — Gillian Jacobs

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?" — Gillian Jacobs

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

Gillian Jacobs Quotes About Life

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

There's no right one way to go through life. — Gillian Jacobs

Gillian Jacobs Quotes About Community

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.' — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

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. — Gillian Jacobs

Gillian Jacobs Quotes About Funny

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring. — Gillian Jacobs

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there. — Gillian Jacobs

Inspiration strikes at very funny times. — Gillian Jacobs

Gillian Jacobs Famous Quotes And Sayings

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! — Gillian Jacobs

Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

We're all alone in this world. — Gillian Jacobs

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

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I think that it is important to establish a world of place for the characters in improv and there is nothing to be gained from disagreeing about that. So you have to establish the principle that if some person establishes one thing we're all going to go along with it and that we are all building from it. — Gillian Jacobs

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean? — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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

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

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

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. — Gillian Jacobs

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion. — Gillian Jacobs

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood. — Gillian Jacobs

I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways! — Gillian Jacobs

I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun. — Gillian Jacobs

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know? — Gillian Jacobs

I've been making Vine videos for a couple of months. They're just six-second little videos, but I really have fun doing them. It's just fun to feel like you created something. — Gillian Jacobs

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I would say 99 percent of the time, you're probably attracted to the other person because it is repairing something that's a little broken in yourself. When you're getting into the relationship, whether that becomes an impediment or the rocket fuel, that's the choice of the person who's in it. — Gillian Jacobs

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school. — Gillian Jacobs

The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more. — Gillian Jacobs

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

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. — Gillian Jacobs

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work. — Gillian Jacobs

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes. — Gillian Jacobs

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls. — Gillian Jacobs

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume. — Gillian Jacobs

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager. — Gillian Jacobs

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot. — Gillian Jacobs

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

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs. — Gillian Jacobs

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan. — Gillian Jacobs

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

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night. — Gillian Jacobs

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

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with. — Gillian Jacobs

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

There's no way to know what's going to happen. — Gillian Jacobs

It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places. — Gillian Jacobs

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. — Gillian Jacobs

Nobody knows what the future is, except for wizards. — Gillian Jacobs

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with. — Gillian Jacobs

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women. — Gillian Jacobs

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there. — Gillian Jacobs

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there. — Gillian Jacobs

Life Lessons by Gillian Jacobs

1. Gillian Jacobs' work demonstrates the importance of hard work and dedication in the pursuit of success.
2. She also shows that it is possible to take risks and be creative in order to stand out in the entertainment industry.
3. Finally, her journey highlights the value of resilience and staying true to yourself in the face of adversity.