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Lake Bell Quotes

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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

– Lake Bell

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that’s super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn’t feel fun to me. I’m living life in order to be able to write about it.

– Lake Bell

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

– Lake Bell

The finest lesson I’ve learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I’m judging myself.

– Lake Bell

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

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

My dad’s a Jew, and my mom’s a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

I collect handkerchiefs. I know that’s sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it’s an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it’s a love story, and it’s funny, and it’s light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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

– Lake Bell

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

– Lake Bell

Before you have kids, you’re like, ‘I hope I don’t die on this plane,’ or, ‘I hope I don’t die crossing the street.’ It’s all me, me, me. ‘What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?’ But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it’s a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

– Lake Bell

I think, in general, when you’re doing comedy, you’re having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you’re playing. I think you want that, too: you’re rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they’re angry at each other, they’re still in synch with each other.

– Lake Bell

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

– Lake Bell

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever’s in the fridge. It’s sort of a game.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.

– Lake Bell

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.’

– Lake Bell

But I’d say ‘How to Make It in America’ is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

– Lake Bell

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