Alison Pill Quotes

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

  Alison Pill

  Underestimate, Politician

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• True badassery has no gender.

  Alison Pill

  Gender

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

  Alison Pill

  Believe, People, Awkward

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

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• You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

  Alison Pill

  Order, People, Work Out

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• 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

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• 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

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• I didn't like most of my boyfriends. I'm a perfect example of somebody who will make it work no matter what. Like, I once had a guy move in with me. He was my least favorite. Nobody who went out with us knew that we were together. I just would not give off the vibe.

  Alison Pill

  Moving, Giving, Perfect

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

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• 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

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

  Alison Pill

  People, Fake, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

  Alison Pill

  Men, Position Of Power, Position

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• 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

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• When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.

  Alison Pill

  Eye, Twenties, Needs

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

  Alison Pill

  Believe, Perfect, Want

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

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• 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

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• To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

  Alison Pill

  Reading, Mind, Novel

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

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• The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Comedy, Blocked

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

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• I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

  Alison Pill

  Character, Ideas, Stuff

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

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• Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

  Alison Pill

  Secret, Mind, Acting

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

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• There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

  Alison Pill

  Wife, Historical, Baggage

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

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• I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

  Alison Pill

  Kids, Men, Thinking

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

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• 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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