I was definitely raised this way. My folks are very grounded, normal people, and I wasn't raised in the entertainment industry. I just grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a very normal family. I wasn't a child actor or anything like that. Jenna Fischer More Quotes by Jenna Fischer More Quotes From Jenna Fischer I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that. Jenna Fischer lists way years I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food. Jenna Fischer zombie women water Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with. Jenna Fischer nerd growing-up school I've been really lucky. I didn't have any morning sickness and I've been off work for most of my pregnancy, so I've been able to do things like work out with a trainer and do prenatal yoga and all these things that have kept my body very agile and pain-free. Jenna Fischer yoga morning pregnancy When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. Jenna Fischer writing years thinking Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing. Jenna Fischer casts comedy college Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready. Jenna Fischer luck stupid thinking Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor. Jenna Fischer hard causes actors I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school. Jenna Fischer college school moving I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general. Jenna Fischer horror lovers action I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really early on that if I didn't also try to ground myself I would probably end up like this character of Laura in A Little Help , or like so many young people in Hollywood, sort of go off the rails. So I'm pretty attached to my routines and my grounded ways. Jenna Fischer character people thinking As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility. Jenna Fischer tone cameras responsibility Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama. Jenna Fischer hard-core yeah drama 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. Jenna Fischer psychics crazy jobs I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself. Jenna Fischer different fun I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way. Jenna Fischer actors real way 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. Jenna Fischer focus college play 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. Jenna Fischer self book thinking It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set, and closed off to all crew members, even, unless we're cut. A lot of times, you're doing a scene in a movie and there are literally 35 people standing behind the camera all waiting to do their job, but here they have to be off the stage. On The Office, it is very much just the actors, a cameraman and a boom operator, like a real documentary, like we really are being documented. Jenna Fischer cutting real character 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. Jenna Fischer thoughtful new-year thinking
