I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else. Felicia Day More Quotes by Felicia Day More Quotes From Felicia Day That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find. Felicia Day great-things platforms different I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood. Felicia Day hollywood roles offering I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con. Felicia Day fandoms hollywood thinking I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that. Felicia Day kind stupid people TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything. Felicia Day tvs people thinking I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system. Felicia Day champion bigs people I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do. Felicia Day passion overcoming people I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills. Felicia Day bills actors pay Doing this web show - people underestimate what it takes to do a web show successfully. They underestimate the amount of work that you have to do to get it to your audience after it's made. I think you have to work so much harder, especially if you don't have a huge budget. You have to know how to get your audience engaged, because the Internet is so distracting, and there are so many choices. People, even if they love your show, will forget to go back for episode four, because you know, people are busy. Felicia Day love-you people thinking Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert. Felicia Day introvert internet thinking Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work. Felicia Day creating jobs character People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have. Felicia Day breathing jobs people I think me getting into performance stems from my mother's inability to do those things. I guess you have these things you want your kids to do that you couldn't do, and you have to start early to do them. Felicia Day stem kids thinking What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies. Felicia Day media space stories Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long. Felicia Day addiction long people I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube. Felicia Day pockets years thinking I've been trying to communicate with other people online all my life, because I was home-schooled, so I moved around. And that was pretty much my social life. That's how I grew up, meeting people and just expressing myself and socializing through the Web. Felicia Day online trying people In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux. Felicia Day acid-reflux lemonade acid Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Doing voice work is also great because you don't have to get your hair done, which I despise. Felicia Day voice acting hair I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get. Felicia Day dollars who-i-am people
