Elizabeth Banks Quotes
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You always agree with other actor beforehand: Are we going to fake it or are you OK with me hitting you? I've never met an actor who doesn't want to really go there. I would be disappointed in myself if I was like "Don't hit me."
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People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'
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I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.
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I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
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As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.
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It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.
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I think it's important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can't be what you can't see, and representation matters. So, for me, it's the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.
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I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.
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I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.
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I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
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There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?
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I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.
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I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.
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I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.
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I met my husband in college, and we've been together for 21 years - it's the thing I'm most proud of in my life. We were trying to figure out how we could make our lives as flexible as possible and do something we both really enjoyed.
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I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.
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I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
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I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.
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I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.
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It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.
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If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.
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So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?
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I have a production company because this is the only job I know and this is the only career I have and the only industry I've ever worked in and the only contacts I have. It's like why wouldn't I produce?
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There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, "How do we make money?" And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women's entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful.
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Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
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When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
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I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?
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I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.
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I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.
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Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.
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