Jenna Fischer quotes

Jenna Fischer is an American actress best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the television series "The Office." Her performance won widespread acclaim and earned her several award nominations. She has also appeared in films and worked as a producer and author. Here are 28 of her quotes:

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

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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.

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I get really excited about jewelry.

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Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

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

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Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

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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.

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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.

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I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

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

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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.

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

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

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I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

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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.

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

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I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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