Lake Bell Quotes

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

I think of myself as a content creator and hopefully one day a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Part of why I love being an actor is the opportunity to be able to go to distant lands and take on different worlds and concepts and pretend to take on different occupations and statuses.

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.