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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.

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Lake Bell
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: March 24
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Lake Siegel Bell
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Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.
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With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.
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I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .
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When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.
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I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.
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I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.
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I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting No Escape in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.
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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.
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A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.
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I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
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The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
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It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.
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When you're a director, you have great respect for directors. I am really pretty loyal to any director that I am working for and I want to help them realize whatever story and mood and tone that they're trying to realize. As an actor, you really just are a cog - you are an important cog, but you are just a piece of the machine.
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Part of why I love being an actor is the opportunity to be able to go to distant lands and take on different worlds and concepts and pretend to take on different occupations and statuses.
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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
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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.
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It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.
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The producers had seen In a World... and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
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