Gillian Jacobs Quotes

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

I don't know what the next acting job will be. I would love to do a comedy.