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Felicia Day is an accomplished American actress, born on June 28, 1979. She gained popularity for her role as Geek Girl in the TV series 'The Guild' and starred in the web series 'The Guild'. She is also recognized for her writing and directing skills.

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“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.”

World Trying Character Jobs Challenges Walking Comfortable Creating Best Work

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

People Children Theater Meetings Online Schooling Socialization

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“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.”

Feels Years Missing Like You Pops Comic Celebration Festivals Comic Con

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

Has Beens Ends Games Seeing Proud Finishing

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

Book Shows Games Lines Geek Things I Love Eclectic Eclectic Style Game Book

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“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.”

Decided Hollywood Secretary Quirky Typecasting

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

Acting Actresses Enjoyed Aunt

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

Believe Past Opportunity I Believe Creating Creating Opportunities

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“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.”

Want Writing Challenges Fantasy Novel Wilderness Fantasy Novels

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

Roles Hollywood Offering Guilds

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

Littles Games Hours Personality Eight Online Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

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“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.”

People Ifs Passion Fans Overcoming Budgets

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

Grew Grew Up Junk Sitcom Junk Food Tasty

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

Stills Actors Pay Bills

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

Thinking Roles Exciting Intimidating Intimidated

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“I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.”

Thinking Can Do Projects Hollywood Comic Comic Con Fandoms

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

Children Guy Nuclear Grandfather Physicist My Grandfather Gadgets

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

Would Be Ultimate Betrayal

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

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

Stars Views Huge Equal Series Marketing Budgets

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

Community My Favorite Episodes Roger

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

Goal Community Creating Video Budgets Accomplished Geek

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“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.”

Shows Bigs Goal Video Geek Fandoms

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

Long Faces Social Term Media Tools Impact Social Media Long Term Interaction Face To Face Social Interaction

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

Ifs Thinking Known Internet Introvert Feeling Overwhelmed

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“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.”

Games Hours Minutes Deserve Session Relish Rationalize

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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Culture Who I Am Threatened Geek No Point Legitimacy

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“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.”

Way Wanted Felt Watches Audience Personality Infrastructure

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“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.”

People Littles Three Actors Four Sitting Series Coffee Episodes Sitting Around Downtime

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“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.”

Thinking Kind Character Girl Games Creating Dialogue Entry Kind Of Girl

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“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.”

Ifs Night Games Excited Surfing Geek Gaming

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“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.”

People Thinking Has Beens Social Voice Player Hanging Out Rpgs

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Wells Enough Character Passion Flaws Chasing Storyline

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“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.”

Years Two Home Force Air Military Months Dad Six Doctors Yeah Competition My Dad Two Years Six Months Violin Schooled Air Force

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“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.”

People Knowing Tvs Smart Boxes Geek Cables Clicks Broadcasting

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“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.”

People Ifs Shows Jobs Community Internet Percent Shots Appreciate Series Breathing Episodes Ninety

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“'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.”

People Games Huge Independent Creator Educate Vehicle Gaming Subculture

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“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.”

Different Audience Great Things Platforms

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“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.”

Want Stories Bigs Space Company Media Advantage Traditional Corporations Versus Microsoft Interference Sprint Big Corporations

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“I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Feelings Known Internet Confused Introvert Overwhelmed Feeling Overwhelmed

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“You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.”

People Ifs Needs Millions Dollars What You Love Doing What You Love

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“Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Persons Important Helping Inspire Glory Spread Helping Others Finite

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“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.”

Heart Mean Littles Enough Bits Judgment Little Bit Brave Substance Rejection Geek

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“It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.”

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“That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.”

Mean Persons Dare Creator Fighter Rebel Dreamer Conventional Outsiders Hobbies Geek

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“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.”

Ifs Feels Done Night Three Games Hours Party Generations Video Consumers Spares Friday Gamer Spare Time Friday Night Playing Video Games

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“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.”

Thinking Whole Subjects Proud Passionate Definitions Focused Range Be Proud Geek

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“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.”

Thinking Men Way Creative Influence Land Media Identity Willing Raised Gender Perceive Proactive Gender Identity

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

People Bigs Champion

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About the Author

Born: June 28, 1979
Known for: Actress
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