Jane Lynch Quotes

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.

...I started getting back what I was putting in. I began to see how important good relationships are in this business. I've always been naturally thorough and well prepared, and by my mid-thirties I had worked out the worst kinks in my personality. I might have even become someone who was nice to have around.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all.

My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. Embrace the ever changing, ever evolving world with the best rule I've ever found. Say 'YES AND.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.

I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

It's a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.