On when she decided she wanted to be an actor

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 383.

On Alex Kurtzman as a director

On playing a bartender

Elizabeth Banks: “I was a bartender and a cocktail waitress. I was a waitress for 10 years and at the end, I worked in New York. In New York City, it was literally that exact job. You dress for tips. You get very physical when you need to. I got a lot of marriage proposals. I had a ticket bought for me to go to Brazil, from one of my regulars. That's what you do. I hated the bar, actually. I preferred cocktail waitressing because you could walk away. And the bar you're f**king stuck there with these douche bags. There's nowhere to go.”

Elizabeth Banks: “The best thing about him is he really invites people into the process and by doing so, he invites the audience into the movie.”

Elizabeth Banks: “I went to college and thought I was going to be Diane Sawyer. I got great advice. I didn't want to study for the LSATS, so law school started to be distant. I was always acting as a hobby. I never wanted to do it as a career. I thought actors lived on the Lower East Side, ate bread, and worked in their friends basements. That was all the actors I knew anyways, and I didn't want that for my life.”

“Honestly, I went to grad school because my mentor said, 'You know, follow your heart and the money will come and see what happens. You can always get a job after.' I went to acting school and booked a commercial 10 days after I graduated and that was it. In other words, they paid me to do it, so I kept doing it.”