Gillian Jacobs
We're all alone in this world.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Christmas
'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.Collection: Sad
I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Humor
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?'Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Romantic
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.
Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
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.
I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.
I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.
I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.
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.
I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.
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 like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
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 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.
Actors get bored.
I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.
Actors are all narcissists.
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.
NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.
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.
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.
I like passionate fandom.
A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
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.
I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.
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.
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.
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!'
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.
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.
My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.
A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'
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.
No one in my school liked me.
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.