Jo Bell Quotes

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

You don't know a good thing until it's gone.And found something else

I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.

I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

Being a mom can be so isolating, and hanging out with other moms is very, very healthy.

Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.

There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.

I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis for relationships, as Kristen Bell, the human, I couldn't be an actress.

I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out.

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

If you're in high school, just know there is a big world out there and you can be anyone you want to be.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.

I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

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

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.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

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.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

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

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.

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

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

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.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

Part of why I love being an actor is the opportunity to be able to go to distant lands and take on different worlds and concepts and pretend to take on different occupations and statuses.

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

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

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.

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

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

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