Quotes from Gillian Jacobs

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

On the set of 'Community,' we quote 'Community' to each other. We're a lost cause. We're like a bunch of little kids running around and yelling things.

I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

What I think is a really special movie is 'Black and White' with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, which Mike Binder directed. I got to see a screening of it, and I think Kevin and Octavia and Anthony Mackie and Bill Burr all give such beautiful performances in that movie.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

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.

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

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

I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.