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Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Irene Banks (née Mitchell; born February 10, 1974) is an American actress, director, model and producer. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy (1998), and is known for her roles in the films Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Seabiscuit (2003), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Role Models (2008), The Next Three Days (2010), Pitch Perfect (2012), Power Rangers (2017), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015). In 2014, she portrayed Melinda Ledbetter, the girlfriend and later wife of the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, in the biographical drama Love & Mercy and made her directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2, whose $69 million opening weekend gross set a record for a first-time director.

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There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

Enough Time, Help, Helping, Human, Plans, Time

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

Actors, Careers, Lucky, Whole

So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?

Actually, Bar, Knowing, Long, Sleep

I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

Baby, Freakin, Jake, Normal, Trying

I have a production company because this is the only job I know and this is the only career I have and the only industry I've ever worked in and the only contacts I have. It's like why wouldn't I produce?

Careers, Company, Jobs, Produce, Production

As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.

Fun, Gratifying, Jobs, People, Storyteller

People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies. '

Ask, Bananas, Cookies, People, Stay, Store

There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, "How do we make money?" And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women's entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful.

Boys, Character, Everybody, Mother, Reaction, Think

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

Actor, Heart, Life, Soul, Thinking, Work

I met my husband in college, and we've been together for 21 years - it's the thing I'm most proud of in my life. We were trying to figure out how we could make our lives as flexible as possible and do something we both really enjoyed.

College, Enjoyed, Figure, Husband, Together, Trying

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Healthy, Long, Matter, Stay, Things, Trying

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

Beginning, Beginning Middle And End, Ends, Film, Know

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

Together, Comfort, Accessories, Stylist, Outfit, Shaking

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

Love, Love Story, Misfits, Stories, Underdog

I think it's important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can't be what you can't see, and representation matters. So, for me, it's the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.

Believe, Representation, Role Models, Thinking, True, Young

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

Action, Big, Job, Jobs, People, Running

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Actually, Everybody, Human, Secret, Should Have, Thinking

I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.

Behavior, Beings, Mean, Possible, Thinking, Training

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

Depressing, Independent, Making, Movies, People

I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.

Brain, Mind, Pierce, Piercing, Reality, See

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