Gillian Jacobs Quotes

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

I want to do theater, TV, movies.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.

My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

Broadway is full of crazy people.

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.