Quotes by Elizabeth Banks - Page 2

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Hero
Ten
Throwing
Mic
Parties
Rock Band
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Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Bridesmaids
Crystal Ball
Predicting
Crystal
Opened
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I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Accessories
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Personal Relationships
Shaking
Stylist
Zone
Love Great Together
Designers
Included
Outfit
Relationships
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I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Wedding
Aunt
Massachusetts
Small Town
Western
Coolest
Coolest Thing
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These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Concept
Lego
Properties
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Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Comedy
Dynamics
Fun
Expense
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I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Heaven
Jessica
Onstage
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I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Life Best Me
Life Best Always
Drama School
Frankly
Suppose
Uncle
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Some big actresses told me a few things that inspired me. One said that the biggest challenge for a female actress was to make sure they are not profoundly bored. Another told me to just do whatever you want - do anything.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Bored
Biggest Challenge
Few Things
Profoundly
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I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Makeup
Papers
Tricks
Blotting
Forehead
Glow
Incorporate
Inner
Shiny
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I can hang with the dudes because I love beef and baseball and driving fast and flirting. I understand where men are coming from, and I'm interested in typically male endeavors. But I can also wear the short skirt and cheerlead.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Beef
Flirting
Male
Dudes
Endeavors
Hang
Skirt
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I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both 'The Hunger Games' and 'Catching Fire' delivered: 'Mockingjay' is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne's Collins's world and books and characters as we can put out!
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Catching
Faithful
Hardcore
Hunger
Collins
Delivered
Exactly What
Hunger Games
Rendition
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I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Busy
Commit
Time Always Mind
Time Busy Always
Directed
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'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
China
Games
Germany
Hunger
Serving
Anywhere
Gets
Hunger Games
Populace
Similar
Tale
Totalitarian
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The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Amazed
Clever
Posts
Great People Know
Great People Fans
Respond
Great Thing
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When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Golden
Golden Age
Julia
Sweetheart
Julia Roberts
Reese Witherspoon
Roberts
Ryan
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I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Airplane
Bathroom
Climbing
Window
Gotta
Ton
Ya
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'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Thank You
Admission
Fulfilled
Guilt
Time Always Your
Thank
Too Much Time
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Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Point Of View
Viewpoints
Funny World View
All People
Developed
Genuinely
Real Sense
Requires
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When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Jet
Hip
Two People
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I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Innate
Point Of View
Sense Of Humor
Appeal
Certain Point
In My Opinion
Require
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I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It's very easy to travel with.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Gym
Navy
Resistance
Tree
Your Body
Anytime
Attach
Cord
Developed
Seal
Wrap
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Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Body
Endeavor
Having A Baby
Heart
Pain
Walking
Whole
Your Body
Great Heart Me
Now
Understand
Sure
Around
Does
Crushes
Great Way
Having
Literally
Outside
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Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Lovely
Love Time Great
Great Way
Hoping
Lend
Opens
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Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Allowing
Unwanted
Versus
Whistling
Life Women Man
Gateway
Life Women Walk
Fine Line
Impose
Passionately
Wolf
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I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Amy
Jane
Mary
Series
Watson
Always Me Never
Audition
Bank
Betty
Bride
Catch
Early
Ended
Role
Spiderman
Teller
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