Quotes from Gillian Jacobs

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.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

I like passionate fandom.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Actors get bored.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

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

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.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

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'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

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

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

I'm a terrible cook.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

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.