Judy Greer

“I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.”

“I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.”

“I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.”

“The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.”

“I am very reluctantly healthy.”

“The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.”

“I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.”

“I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie.”

“When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.”

“I love Cate Blanchett; I think she's brilliant.”

“For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.”

“The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.”

“It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.”

“I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool.”

“I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.”

“I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out.”

“I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.”

“Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.”

“There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate.”

“I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.”