Jenna Fischer Quotes

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

I get really excited about jewelry.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.