Explore Quotes by Jenna Fischer

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.