Top 35 Jenna Fischer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don’t complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.”

— Jenna Fischer

2. “I’m a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year’s resolutions went.”

— Jenna Fischer

3. “Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life.”

— Jenna Fischer

4. “When I’m writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.”

— Jenna Fischer

5. “I’m a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.”

— Jenna Fischer

6. “Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.”

— Jenna Fischer

7. “I’m not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.”

— Jenna Fischer

8. “Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn’t know you were in school with.”

— Jenna Fischer

9. “My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn’t care if I’m on a TV show or if I’m red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I’m there.”

— Jenna Fischer

10. “I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.”

— Jenna Fischer

11. “I’m a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.”

— Jenna Fischer

12. “I don’t know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I’ve become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.”

— Jenna Fischer

13. “I’m not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.”

— Jenna Fischer

14. “I don’t have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.”

— Jenna Fischer

15. “The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you’re a kid – fun all the time.”

— Jenna Fischer

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16. “I don’t have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.”

— Jenna Fischer

17. “I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There’s a period of time that you go through, where you’re having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.”

— Jenna Fischer

18. “I didn’t want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.”

— Jenna Fischer

19. “I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn’t going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.”

— Jenna Fischer

20. “I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.”

— Jenna Fischer

21. “It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I’m surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I’m really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.”

— Jenna Fischer

22. “I get really excited about jewelry.”

— Jenna Fischer

23. “You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it’s going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.”

— Jenna Fischer

24. “I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.”

— Jenna Fischer

25. “I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I’m a movie lover in general.”

— Jenna Fischer

26. “Yeah, you know I don’t ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.”

— Jenna Fischer

27. “I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I’ve just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I’ve read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.”

— Jenna Fischer

28. “Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.”

— Jenna Fischer

29. “As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that’s a really big responsibility.”

— Jenna Fischer

30. “Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.”

— Jenna Fischer

31. “Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.”

— Jenna Fischer

32. “Cause it’s really hard, it’s hard to be an actor.”

— Jenna Fischer

33. “Sometimes that’s all you need to help you move forward: You need the right person to listen.”

— Jenna Fischer

34. “I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.”

— Jenna Fischer

35. “The single best thing an actor can do, both professionally and personally, is to create their own work.”

— Jenna Fischer

36. “Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion. Link arms and walk into any crowd, fake laughing like you own the world and you will!”

— Jenna Fischer

37. “Every project you finish has value.”

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38. “Gone are the days of buying stamps and mailing audition submissions. Today we have the internet. No more post office.”

— Jenna Fischer