Elizabeth Banks Quotes

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• People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Cookies, Bananas

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• I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  "Ester Dean’s EGOT Future". Interview with Elizabeth Banks, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Challenges, Reaching

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT, Returning for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, TINK, and LEGO: THE PIECE OF RESISTANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2012.

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• As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

  "Elizabeth Banks On Directing, Playing the Hero in ‘Love & Mercy’ and Concluding ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2015.

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• I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Laughing, Embarrassed

  "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Sexy, Sex, Desire

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• You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Stars, Opportunity, Hands

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• As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mean, Thinking, Training

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Being a creative person is a really personal process so there is no one-size-fits-all advice, that's kind of the first thing I'd say. Because everybody's goals are different. Everybody's talents are different. Some women that I'm talking to want to create a television show. Some women want to be a director. They want to use comedy in different ways, and I find that really fascinating. The main thing I would say is, start! Just do it. Keep going. When people come at you with the negativity and the nos, you've got to ignore it. Push through.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Goal, Creative

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I met my husband in college, and we've been together for 21 years - it's the thing I'm most proud of in my life. We were trying to figure out how we could make our lives as flexible as possible and do something we both really enjoyed.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Husband, College, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Enough Time, Helping, Plans

  "Elizabeth Banks on "Great Broad" Nora Ephron and Her Summer Camp Romance". Interview with Tara Block, www.popsugar.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Thinking, Doors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I think it's important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can't be what you can't see, and representation matters. So, for me, it's the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Believe, Thinking, Role Models

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Errors, Stupidity, Height

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Self, House

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• I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Baby, Trying, Jake

  "Banks Swings into Stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'" by Anthony Breznican, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2008.

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• I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Should Have, Secret

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• I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Beginning Middle And End, Film, Ends

  "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.

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• My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, School, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women". Interview with Alex Stedman, variety.com. June 5, 2015.

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• It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Long, Healthy, Trying

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• I think we're in a really interesting moment for women globally just in terms of, like, historically, I think we're in an interesting moment for women. Because, it's important to remember, there have always been funny, funny women. Mae West was real funny. Marilyn Monroe was in one of the greatest comedies, Some Like It Hot, ever made. I mean, it's not like we're lacking. I just think the percentage of women in positions of power in all aspects of our culture is improving and women are standing up and demanding to be heard.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• It's really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Fun, Watches, Disappear

  "Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz and Wes Bentley THE HUNGER GAMES Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Spoiled, Direct, Amazing Experiences

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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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. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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