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" 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
Day
Think
Myself
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" I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...' "
Lake Bell
World
General
Love
" 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.' "
Lake Bell
Support
Great
Voice
" 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead. "
Lake Bell
World
Thankful
Man
" 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
Kid
Always
Fashion
" My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant! "
Lake Bell
Restaurant
Get
Drawing
" 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 Can
Myself
Successful
" 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
My Life
Situation
Way
" The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time. "
Lake Bell
Like
Time
Gifts
" 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
Cheese
Pizza
Lunch
" 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. "
Lake Bell
More
You
Like
" 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
Husband
Game
End
" I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something. "
Lake Bell
Who
Hungry
I Am
" There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes. "
Lake Bell
People
Some
Women
" I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff. "
Lake Bell
Tall
Baby
Drama
" 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
Skin
Fat
Insecurity
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Voice
Loved
Like
" I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects. "
Lake Bell
Feel
I Am
Life
" 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
Protect
Mission
You
" 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
Serious
Think
Time
" I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!' "
Lake Bell
Think
Love
Me
" 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
Classic
Fun
Want
" 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
Different
Love
Actor
" I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance. "
Lake Bell
My Life
World
Forever
" Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. "
Lake Bell
Interesting
I Am
My Own
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Without
Work
You
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Know
Thinking
Daughter
" There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night. "
Lake Bell
Rest
You
Walk
" I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. "
Lake Bell
Think
Work
Time
" I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state. "
Lake Bell
Want
Feel
Fashion
" 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
Enjoy
Honest
Working