Top 100 Gillian Jacobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.”

— Gillian Jacobs

52. “As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.”

— Gillian Jacobs

53. “My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.”

— Gillian Jacobs

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Gillian Jacobs

56. “I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I’ve never felt that way about ‘Community.’”

— Gillian Jacobs

57. “I haven’t done improv since I was in middle school.”

— Gillian Jacobs

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

— Gillian Jacobs

59. “NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.”

— Gillian Jacobs

60. “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

61. “You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.”

— Gillian Jacobs

62. “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

63. “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

64. “I’ve thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like ‘The Road’ situation, I’ve decided I don’t want to survive past the death of society as we know it.”

— Gillian Jacobs

65. “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

66. “Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.”

— Gillian Jacobs

67. “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

68. “A lot of people watch ‘Community,’ but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.”

— Gillian Jacobs

69. “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

70. “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

71. “I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.”

— Gillian Jacobs

72. “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

73. “I think we’ve probably all read a word that we’ve never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.”

— Gillian Jacobs

74. “I like the ‘Moth’ podcast a lot. I listen to that.”

— Gillian Jacobs

75. “I’m a pretty goofy person. I’m an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.”

— Gillian Jacobs

76. “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

77. “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

78. “I’ve definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.”

— Gillian Jacobs

79. “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.”

— Gillian Jacobs

80. “There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you’re on a TV show.”

— Gillian Jacobs

81. “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

82. “I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.”

— Gillian Jacobs

83. “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

84. “It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.”

— Gillian Jacobs

85. “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

86. “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

87. “I don’t think I’ve ever been mistaken for anyone.”

— Gillian Jacobs

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

— Gillian Jacobs

89. “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

90. “I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.”

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91. “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

92. “I’d say I’ve gone to grad school for comedy being on ‘Community.’”

— Gillian Jacobs

93. “You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.”

— Gillian Jacobs

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

— Gillian Jacobs

95. “The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.”

— Gillian Jacobs

96. “We all wish there were more ‘Bridesmaids’ out there.”

— Gillian Jacobs

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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