Film Quotes by Lake Bell

8 Film quotes by Lake Bell

Lake Bell offers eight brief thoughts on film, highlighting her actress‑writer’s humor and insight. This compact set gives a clear sense of her perspective on storytelling and performance.

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I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out,…

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The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your…

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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…

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

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When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend…

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

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When you're a director, you have great respect for directors. I am really pretty loyal to any director that I am working…

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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…

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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…

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A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your…

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

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

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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…

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I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out…

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

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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they…

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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem…

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

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I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is…

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

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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an…

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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

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I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if…

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