Lake Bell Quotes

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

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.

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.

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 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 have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.

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

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

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