Top 35 Elizabeth Banks Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I’m planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I’m very self-sufficient.”

— Elizabeth Banks

2. “I love stories about misfits and underdogs.”

— Elizabeth Banks

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3. “There’s never enough money, there’s never enough time, there’s never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong – it’s just hard to be human, isn’t it?”

— Elizabeth Banks

4. “My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.”

— Elizabeth Banks

5. “I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what’s going on?”

— Elizabeth Banks

6. “When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.”

— Elizabeth Banks

7. “It’s really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that’s why those things matter when you’re trying to keep your health, literally.”

— Elizabeth Banks

8. “If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.”

— Elizabeth Banks

9. “I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That’s something I don’t have to act very hard at.”

— Elizabeth Banks

10. “I got Twitter identity theft.”

— Elizabeth Banks

11. “As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny – it’s really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.”

— Elizabeth Banks

12. “I like my coffee light.”

— Elizabeth Banks

13. “You don’t realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I’m really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious – I am responsible for two people now.”

— Elizabeth Banks

14. “I’m really interested in making movies that people see: I’ve made a lot of independent films and it’s really depressing when no one sees them.”

— Elizabeth Banks

15. “I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.”

— Elizabeth Banks

16. “People ask me how I stay thin, and I’m like, ‘When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.’”

— Elizabeth Banks

17. “As an actor, you go through life thinking “This stop is the last stop,” so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.”

— Elizabeth Banks

18. “When you live in a leading lady’s body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.”

— Elizabeth Banks

19. “I’m actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.”

— Elizabeth Banks

20. “I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.”

— Elizabeth Banks

21. “It’s really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day.”

— Elizabeth Banks

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22. “I’m sort of the bossiest sister.”

— Elizabeth Banks

23. “So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?”

— Elizabeth Banks

24. “I’m not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it’s ridiculous to think that a female director can’t direct men. That makes no sense to me.”

— Elizabeth Banks

25. “I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.”

— Elizabeth Banks

26. “I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.”

— Elizabeth Banks

27. “I’m perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren’t actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.”

— Elizabeth Banks

28. “Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they’re really fun to play.”

— Elizabeth Banks

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29. “I’m lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.”

— Elizabeth Banks

30. “I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.”

— Elizabeth Banks

31. “I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.”

— Elizabeth Banks

32. “I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.”

— Elizabeth Banks

33. “I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I’m very cognizant of my audience. I’m a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn’t be able to work at the level I work at if people didn’t enjoy what I did.”

— Elizabeth Banks

34. “It’s pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what’s just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.”

— Elizabeth Banks

35. “You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.”

— Elizabeth Banks

36. “I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I’m always the one throwing down on the mic.”

— Elizabeth Banks

37. “I’m always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.”

— Elizabeth Banks