Top 45 Lake Bell Quotes

I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to be one of the great voice-over artists.’

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.

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.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I’ve met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they’re always with me.

I’m organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They’re barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

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.

My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we’d speak in the language. It’s called Op.

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.

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

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

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.

Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting – like having a child – is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

Having children is not for everyone, but I think it’s a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It’s a relief, in a way. It’s like, this is her story now, and I’m her mom. It’s a nice shift.

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.

You can’t live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

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

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can’t live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that’s a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

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

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.

‘Wet Hot American Summer’ was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn’t considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what’s so wonderful about it.

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.

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

I love Dr. Hauschka’s blue mascara. It’s not so blue that it’s like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ It’s more like a secret that you’re wearing it.

My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she’ll wear it more once it’s sleeveless.

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.

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.

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

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I’m lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

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.

My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I’m always scared I’ll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

I’m forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

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.’

I’ve always been very in tune to my voice and to other people’s voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects – I collected them like stamps.

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.

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.

The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they’re visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice – whether or not they’re to be taken seriously.

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.