A biography for Gillian Jacobshasn’t been written yet.
“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 think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.”
“My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.”
“I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.”
“I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.”
“I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.”
“I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.”
“Actors get bored.”
“No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.”
“I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.”
“We're all alone in this world.”
“In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.”
“They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.”
“I troll Instagram, Style.com, Elle.com.”
“In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'”
“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 wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'”
“I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.”
“I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.”
“'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.”