Latest Elizabeth Banks Quotes from Interviews

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• There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, "How do we make money?" And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women's entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mother, Character, Boys

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I'm very grateful to be in a position now where I have a lot more control to tell the stories I want to tell. I feel no obligation to tell any one story. I will tell you my interest mostly lies in telling stories about empowered women, but I don't feel it's an obligation. But I do feel like I am servicing a voice.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Lying, Grateful, Interest

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You always agree with other actor beforehand: Are we going to fake it or are you OK with me hitting you? I've never met an actor who doesn't want to really go there. I would be disappointed in myself if I was like "Don't hit me."

  Elizabeth Banks

  Fake, Agree, Disappointed

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Running, Jobs, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

• I have a production company because this is the only job I know and this is the only career I have and the only industry I've ever worked in and the only contacts I have. It's like why wouldn't I produce?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Jobs, Careers, Produce

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

• I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Men, Directors

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

• I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Responsibility, Want, Way

  "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.

• I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Depressing, Independent, People

  "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.

• 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.

• As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Opportunity, Actors, Sides

  "Elizabeth Banks and Her Husband Take Us Behind the Scenes of Pitch Perfect". Interview with Annie Gabillet, www.popsugar.com. September 28, 2012.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Fans, Levels

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

• I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Guy, Comedian

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

• I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Reality, Brain, Mind

  Source: collider.com

• I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Careers, Lucky, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Crazy, Long, Use

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