Latest Alison Pill Quotes from Interviews

• True badassery has no gender.

  Alison Pill

  Gender

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

  Alison Pill

  Sitting, Want, Slides

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I can't even vote in America!

  Alison Pill

  America, Vote, I Can

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Have a kid. You obviously shouldn't have a baby just to get politically active, but I'm eight and a half months pregnant, and I swear, thinking about an actual very real future for a tiny person is a game changer.

  Alison Pill

  Baby, Real, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.

  Alison Pill

  Evil, Want, Sides

  Source: www.glamour.com

• One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

  Alison Pill

  Gone Away, Ideas, America

  Source: www.glamour.com

• We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

  Alison Pill

  Voice, Doubt, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

  Alison Pill

  Underestimate, Politician

  Source: www.glamour.com

• The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.

  Alison Pill

  Running, Boys, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

• The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

  Alison Pill

  Years, Scripts, Documents

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Some people get fake boobs, but whatever. You can make your own decisions.

  Alison Pill

  People, Fake, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

• And so getting to meet Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman and getting to know two awesome girls who are just kick-ass. It's been nice that way where we probably wouldn't have worked together on any other crazy project. And just like you know Chris Evans teaching us all the high-five because he's dealing with like non-jocks (laughter) and we're like yeah!

  Alison Pill

  Girl, Laughter, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

• Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."

  Alison Pill

  Play, Trying, Band

  Source: collider.com

• One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Bridges, Community

  Source: collider.com

• But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.

  Alison Pill

  Thinking, Play, Space

  Source: collider.com

• Well, it's sort of funny to try and get that balance between just accepting the reality of my friend [co-star Satya Bhabha] flying in from the ceiling of the theatre and like starting to do a dance with demon hipster chicks. It's like, so how do we react when he throws fireballs? Are we surprised? Does this happen a lot?

  Alison Pill

  Stars, Hipster, Reality

  Source: collider.com

• I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?

  Alison Pill

  Crazy, Mean, Light

  Source: collider.com

• I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

  Alison Pill

  Rehearsal, Stuff, Matching

  Source: collider.com

• And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

  Alison Pill

  Heyday, Three, Band

  Source: collider.com

• And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.

  Alison Pill

  New York, Cities, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to...I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

  Alison Pill

  Teacher, New York, Guy

  Source: collider.com

• I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it's kind of crazy that I'd never known the books before.

  Alison Pill

  Crazy, Book, Video

  Source: collider.com

• It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping their way through their 20's doing other amazing things. And I've been in...I spent like 10 years working here without ever having been shooting in Toronto. And it's so frustrating because it's a great city. And I remember seeing Montreal actually used as Montreal in that Ed Norton-Robert DeNiro.

  Alison Pill

  Art, Mean, Cities

  Source: collider.com

• The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

  Alison Pill

  New York, Growing Up, Acting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

• One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.

  Alison Pill

  Hands, Feelings, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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