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.
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.
I’ve been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning – I like those a lot.
‘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.
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.
Boy, you know, it’s amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
I’ve had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It’s been really fun.
I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.
‘Dancing on My Own’ is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.
I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.
When you can impress your mom by saying you’ve been to someone’s concert, you know you’re pretty lame.
My mom wouldn’t let me buy clothes she didn’t like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.
My mom wouldn’t know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
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.
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, ‘Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.’ She goes, ‘Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?’
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.