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" I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage. "
Lake Bell
Vegan
Other
Travel
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" 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. "
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Husband
Game
End
" I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up. "
Lake Bell
Family
Up
Growing Up
" I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad. "
Lake Bell
Up
Organized
Mess
" But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure. "
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Television
Community
New York
" 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
" Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge. "
Lake Bell
Hope
Baby
Me
" 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
" 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
" 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 think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues. "
Lake Bell
Light
Love
Fight
" If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it. "
Lake Bell
Direct
Write
Want
" I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something. "
Lake Bell
Who
Hungry
I Am
" 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 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
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Mother
Beautiful
Forward
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Creative
Mom
Fashion
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Welcome
Child
Creative
" 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
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Meet
Seriously
Together
" 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
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Family
Mom
Pretty
" '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. "
Lake Bell
Think
American
Genius
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Stylish
Mom
Great
" 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. "
Lake Bell
People
Family
I Am
" 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. "
Lake Bell
Speak
Kind
Brother