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Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both ‘Pitch Perfect’ films.

– Elizabeth Banks

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

– Elizabeth Banks

I like my coffee light.

– Elizabeth Banks

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt – because the system is good at hiding it.

– Elizabeth Banks

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.

– Elizabeth Banks

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

– Elizabeth Banks

I’m not a particularly shiny, happy person. I’m fairly cynical, and that’s what draws me to comedy.

– Elizabeth Banks

These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, ‘Yeah, they’re making a movie out of Lego,’ I said, ‘Lego what? What does that even mean?’ And it’s such a good concept.

– Elizabeth Banks

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

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

– Elizabeth Banks

I’m afraid of a cappella. I don’t read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I’m a melody singer only.

– Elizabeth Banks

When you live in a leading lady’s body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

– Elizabeth Banks

When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, ‘Who is America’s Next Sweetheart?’ every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.

– Elizabeth Banks

I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It’s very easy to travel with.

– Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

– Elizabeth Banks

I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.

– Elizabeth Banks

I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I’m always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I’m that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.

– Elizabeth Banks

I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Catching Fire’ delivered: ‘Mockingjay’ is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne’s Collins’s world and books and characters as we can put out!

– Elizabeth Banks

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities – Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

– Elizabeth Banks

I directed plays in college. It’s something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I’m a busy actress, and it’s very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It’s a very – it’s a big, big job.

– Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

– Elizabeth Banks

‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ those scenes are super fun. It’s just me and John Michael Higgins, and we’ve been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.

– Elizabeth Banks

I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

– Elizabeth Banks

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

– Elizabeth Banks

I have such a respect for comedy. It’s a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

– Elizabeth Banks

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that’s going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

– Elizabeth Banks

I work out with our trainer, Jocelynne Boschen of Alpha Sport L.A., hike a lot, and eat healthy. I love cooking so prepare a lot of my own food and avoid processed foods. No fast food. No soda.

– Elizabeth Banks

I’m a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I’m a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet.

– Elizabeth Banks

My acting gives me my self-worth.

– Elizabeth Banks

Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, ‘Yeah, ‘Bridesmaids’ opened the door to make more movies about women.’ I mean, did it? I don’t know; where are they?

– Elizabeth Banks

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