Felicia Day Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself."

"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."

"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."