Felicia Day Quotes

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

- Felicia Day

Amazing, Interaction, Social, Impact

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

- Felicia Day

Always, Tech, Gadget, Physicist

I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

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Been, Became, Friday Night, Spare Time

I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.

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Lucky, Been, Very, Guild

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

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Thought, Hollywood, Created, Guild

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

- Felicia Day

Proud, Think, I Think, Narrow

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

- Felicia Day

Always, Actress, Actually, Aunt

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

- Felicia Day

Will, Stereotypes, Very, Quirky

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

Love, Some, Very, Tech Companies

Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

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Think, I Think, Known, Surprisingly

I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

- Felicia Day

Big, Hollywood, Always, Big City

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

- Felicia Day

Chasing, About, Your, Flaws

That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.

- Felicia Day

Love, Expression, About, Forum

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

- Felicia Day

Storytelling, Very, TV, Versus

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

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Understand, More, Then, Episodes

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

Show, Maintain, Ninety, Episodes

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

- Felicia Day

Go, Always, Mr, Episodes

On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

- Felicia Day

New Things, New, Discover, Tumblr

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

- Felicia Day

Rest, My Life, Always, Novels

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

- Felicia Day

Fantasy, More, Read, Novels

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

- Felicia Day

Love, Junk, I Love, Junk Food

When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

- Felicia Day

Game, Deserve, Carve, Relish

At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

- Felicia Day

Why, I Think, Very, Legitimacy

When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.

- Felicia Day

Woman, Half, Frustrated, Runners

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

- Felicia Day

Come, Being, Any, Schooling

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

- Felicia Day

Rest, My Life, Hollywood, Typecast

Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

- Felicia Day

Media, YouTube, Instinct, Social Media

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

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Fact, Exciting, Britain, Resigned

For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

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Audience, Everyone, Like, Personalities

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

- Felicia Day

Here, Dad, Yeah, Competitions

I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

- Felicia Day

Here, I Think, About, True Spirit

Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.

- Felicia Day

Love, More, Comics, Targeted

I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.

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Some, I Think, Mass, Vivid

I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially with the voice chat, it becomes like hanging out with your friends in a chat channel, and you're playing at the same time. So it becomes a lot more social than people would probably think.

- Felicia Day

Voice, Been, Channel, Chat

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

Audience, Other, About, Platforms

'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

- Felicia Day

Game, Independent, Gaming, Educate

There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

- Felicia Day

Gender, I Think, Willing, Women Are

I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

- Felicia Day

Social, Studio, Part, Teenage Years

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

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Doing, Big, System, Champion

Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

- Felicia Day

Professional, Star, Some, Budget

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

Overcome, Like, Learned, Budget

I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

- Felicia Day

Idea, Very, Had, Budget

My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

- Felicia Day

Goal, Video, Based, Budget

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.

- Felicia Day

Voice, Line, Very, Tool

I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

- Felicia Day

Through, Weeks, Months, Severe

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

Work, New, Set, Best Work

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

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Think, Always, I Think, Intimidating

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

- Felicia Day

Love, Very, Which, Pays

I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

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Community, Amazing, Been, Buffy

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

- Felicia Day

Year, Like, Feels, Missing

I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

- Felicia Day

Love, Game, Think, Entry

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

- Felicia Day

Love, Against, Means, Geek

Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

- Felicia Day

Love, Hope, Box, Geek

My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.

- Felicia Day

Goal, Big, Within, Geek

I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.

- Felicia Day

Gaming, Always, Over, Geek

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

- Felicia Day

Play, Year, Last Year, Geek

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

- Felicia Day

Social, Very, Had, Persistent

I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.

- Felicia Day

Been, I Think, TV, Press

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

Think, Hollywood, I Think, Comic-Con

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

- Felicia Day

Storytelling, Last, Which, Successfully

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

- Felicia Day

Tell, Hours, Played, Online

I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

- Felicia Day

Everyone, Appeal, Fewer, Creates

Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

- Felicia Day

Audience, Task, Sustaining, Web

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

Teach, Been, Rejected, Handle

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

- Felicia Day

Think, New, Other, Ground

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

- Felicia Day

Never, Ultimate, Would, Betrayal

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

- Felicia Day

Proud, Through, Been, Finishing

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