Lake Bell Quotes

I’ve always been very in tune to my voice and to other people’s voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects – I collected them like stamps.

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 enjoyable experience for me.

I consider myself a good layman’s cook. Ninety percent of the time, I’m successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.

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.

I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to be one of the great voice-over artists.’

I’m organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They’re barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

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.

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

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took ‘In A World…’ to Sundance.

I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I’m in an active state.

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

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

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

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I’ve met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

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

When I was pregnant, I was like, ‘I’m pregnant, so I’m allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.’

My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can’t live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that’s a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that’s sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.

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’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 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.

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

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.

Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting – like having a child – is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

At a time when every series we’re supposed to be DVR-ing is very important, very serious, has to do with heavy, heavy matters, I think ‘Wet Hot’ provides a respite to that DVR homework. It’s totally the gummy bears of your programming.

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

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.

The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they’re visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice – whether or not they’re to be taken seriously.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I’ve retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

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.

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

I love Dr. Hauschka’s blue mascara. It’s not so blue that it’s like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ It’s more like a secret that you’re wearing it.

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.

If I write something, and I’m going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

I’m super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. ‘In a World…’ was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, ‘Hey. Consider me!’

When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

‘Wet Hot American Summer’ was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn’t considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what’s so wonderful about it.

I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I’m not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

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

My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we’d speak in the language. It’s called Op.

When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That’s primal. I relate to that deeply.

There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night.

I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

I don’t really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it’s incredibly lucrative, I’m just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.