Lauren Graham Quotes

We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest. ~ Lauren Graham

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances. ~ Lauren Graham

Maybe my life story is to be a person with a normal job and a normal life. That's what most people have. I was wrong to believe I was any different. ~ Lauren Graham

We all have to start somewhere.' So start somewhere, anywhere, and give me an idea of what it is you'd like to do. Tell me EVERYTHING. What is your DREAM? ~ Lauren Graham

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. ~ Lauren Graham

Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth. ~ Lauren Graham

Good news! My accountant has just informed me that by imparting all these Top-Secret Hollywood Secrets to you, I've now saved you at least one zillion American dollars! ~ Lauren Graham

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles
they're crazy!' and it's funny. ~ Lauren Graham

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain. ~ Lauren Graham

I know how lucky I am to have had such wonderful first and second acts in my career. I'm still not sure what my third act will turn out to be (Sexy Baking Competition Hostess? Flamboyant Peruvian Bingo Caller?), but if you happen to run into Betty White, tell her thank you.

I'd like to be her one day. ~ Lauren Graham

From the front I look to put together, but every other angle would reveal how false the front of me is, how much effort has gone into presenting a one-sided image of perfection. ~ Lauren Graham

Dry-cleaning is like this secret society you're not allowed into. No matter what, you're at their mercy. You can have a Ph.D. in anything, but you still can't dry-clean your own clothes. They'll never tell you how. No one's ever even seen what the machine looks like. Think about it. There's a reason they keep the actual dry-cleaning apparatus hidden behind all those racks of hanging clothes. They don't want you to crack their code. They won't let anybody in. Not anybody. Even rich people. You know any rich people with dry-cleaning machines in their house? Exactly. Even they still have to pick it up and drop it off like everyone else. ~ Lauren Graham

In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. ~ Lauren Graham

life doesn't often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn't be called life, it would be called vending machine. It's hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it's true that whatever you're after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don't know it yet. ~ Lauren Graham

his college girlfriend, Everett. ~ Lauren Graham

FASTER - don't talk down to the audience, take us for a spin, don't spell everything out for us, we're as smart as you - assume we can keep up; FUNNIER - entertain us, help us see how ridiculous and beautiful life can be, give us a reason to feel better about our flaws; LOUDER - deliver the story in the appropriate size, DON'T be indulgent or keep it to yourself, be generous - you're there to reach US." Barney takes a few gulps of air and beats his fist just once on his chest. "There you go, my dear. It might SOUND simple, but if I know you, you'll spend your life dedicated to getting it right. And that's it, my dear. THAT'S the whole banana. ~ Lauren Graham

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene. ~ Lauren Graham

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator. ~ Lauren Graham

Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on. ~ Lauren Graham

Maybe it's not acting for you. Maybe it's baseball or coding or taking care of kids. But whatever path you choose, whatever career you decide to go after, the important thing is that you keep finding joy in what you're doing, especially when the joy isn't finding you. Treat every day like you're starring in it. Don't wait for permission or good reviews. If you can do that, you'll be surprised by how far you might end up sailing. ~ Lauren Graham

None of my characters have really had jobs. ~ Lauren Graham

Joan Baxter (Lauren Graham): "You want to build a boat?"
Evan Baxter: "It might be something fun for the family. Go sailing on the lake. I don't know. [looking at his feet, under his breath] Be great in case it floods or something… ~ Steve Carell

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV. ~ Lauren Graham

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else. ~ Lauren Graham

Of all the lists I've made of goals, and all the visions I've had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans. ~ Lauren Graham

something so regal and linear about her. ~ Lauren Graham

Your job doesn't define you - your bravery and kindness and gratitude do. Even without any "big" accomplishments yet to your name, you are enough. Whether you have top billing, or you're still dancing in the back row, you are enough, just as you are. ~ Lauren Graham

Perform every job as if you're being well paid...Respect yourself and your work as if you're being paid to be the Boss. ~ Lauren Graham

Most of the streets in Manhattan go in just one direction. Some of the larger crosstown streets and some of the major north - south avenues have two-way traffic, but in general, the odd-numbered streets go west, toward the Hudson River, and the "evens go east," as Jane, the native New Yorker, taught me. ~ Lauren Graham

But the next generation, like this baby in the airport, will never know what life is like without a device. This raises a couple of questions: What does the future hold for this baby? And can she beat me at Candy Crush? ~ Lauren Graham

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with. ~ Lauren Graham

To me, Lorelai was equal parts Gal About Town and The Mom, plus a magical mix of smarts and humor that made her totally unique. ~ Lauren Graham

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time. ~ Lauren Graham

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I'm a loser, and see if they can't agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle. ~ Lauren Graham

What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the headphones that look like donuts on your ears, doesn't it make life so much smaller? If absolutely everything important is only happening on such a small screen, isn't that a shame? Especially when the world is so overwhelmingly large and surprising? Are you missing too much? You can't imagine it now, but you'll look like me one day, even though you'll feel just the same as you do now. You'll catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think how quickly it's all gone, and I wonder if all the time you used watching those families whose lives are filmed for the television, and making those cartoons of yourselves with panting dog tongues, and chasing after that terrible Pokémon fellow…well, will it feel like time well spent? ~ Lauren Graham

You've felt it too, haven't you? Even for a fleeting moment? When you're engrossed a good book, or losing yourself in trying a new recipe, or tackling something at work, and then you look up at the clock, only to realize just how many hours have passed. Whatever you want to call it: flying, sailing, surfing. It's the way time moves differently when you're caught up in the simple joy of being yourself. It's what can happen when you make the decision the let go of criticism and worry and fear. And that's where The Best really lives. ~ Lauren Graham

For a very long time I worked and worked and worked, and then I looked up one day and all my friends were married with children. These married-with-children people were still my friends, but they'd become part of a community I wasn't in, a club I didn't belong to. Socially, their lives had completely changed, and they were busy. Their attention had turned to carpools and birthday parties and school tuition, and I was playing catch-up:"Wait, so we don't have game night anymore? You guys, who's free for dinner Saturday? Oh, absolutely no one? ~ Lauren Graham

I still find that, in general, having a plan is, well, a good plan. But when my carefully laid plan laughed at me, rather than clutch at it too tightly I just made a new one, even if it was one that didn't immediately make sense. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. So don't let your plan have the last laugh, but laugh last when your plan laughs, and when your plan has the last laugh, laugh back, laughing! ~ Lauren Graham

Katie raises her eyebrows at Dan and looks him up and down. "You're a good dancer," she says, a gleam in her eye.
"Thank you," he says, with a funny little bow.
"But this Sinatra stuff they're playing now, this is just the warm-up, you know."
"I've been informed about the upcoming mandatory dance party, yes," he says formally, but grinning a little.
"Good, 'cause the DJ takes over after dinner, and this place is gonna get ugly," Katie says. "After the old people leave, there'll be real music. And by real, I mean old music, and new music, and horrible, shitty music. We don't care, as long as you can dance to it. We're gonna Macarena this thing if we have to, to keep this party going. The Macarena - that's how low we're gonna go. ~ Lauren Graham

But life doesn't often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn't be called life, it would be called vending machine. ~ Lauren Graham

want to feel something that is actually something. A feeling that is identifiable and real. A ~ Lauren Graham

Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading. ~ Lauren Graham

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown. ~ Lauren Graham

I'm nice, and I show up on time. ~ Lauren Graham

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline. ~ Lauren Graham

In this book, I will also see into the future and report my findings to you and to select heads of state. These findings will be lies, as I cannot actually see into the future, but who can stop me saying whatever I want here? It's my book! I'm drunk with power! ~ Lauren Graham

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it! ~ Lauren Graham

Sometimes the idea of doing something is the most fun part, and after you go through with it, you feel deflated because you realize you're back to looking for the next thrill. ~ Lauren Graham

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. ~ Lauren Graham

If absolutely everything important is only happening on such as small screen, isn't that just a shame? ~ Lauren Graham

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself. ~ Lauren Graham

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore. ~ Lauren Graham

That summer I also discovered the first alcoholic drink I actually liked the taste of, a drink that was very hip and happening at the time, and is still a sign of intellect and sophistication. I'm talking, of course, about the Fuzzy Navel. ~ Lauren Graham

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on ~ Lauren Graham

Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans. ~ Lauren Graham

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. ~ Lauren Graham

I was just thinking about how Christmas is right around the corner, but no matter how you choose to celebrate the holidays, books in general make great gifts! ~ Lauren Graham

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety. ~ Lauren Graham

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl. ~ Lauren Graham

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. ~ Lauren Graham

I do however like to tell people, especially regarding writing and deadlines: "Don't be perfect, just be done. ~ Lauren Graham

It's just a superstition, but looking at the river, the boats, the sign leaving Brooklyn that says "Watchtower" in big red letters, is a ritual that reminds me I am small, I am one of thousands--no--one of millions of people who looked at this river before me, from a boat or a car or the window of the D train, who came to New York with a dream, who achieved it or didn't, but nonetheless made the same effort I'm making now. It keeps things in perspective, and strangely, it gives me hope. ~ Lauren Graham

The Chosen Butts became an instant club of sorts. We tried our best to be professional and not act overly excited, but it was clear we were bonded because of our excellent butts I mean acting ability. ~ Lauren Graham

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process. ~ Lauren Graham

Keep finding the JOY in what you're doing, especially when the joy is not finding you ~ Lauren Graham

That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it. ~ Lauren Graham

And dear, if you should someday become famous, don't write a cookbook. ~ Lauren Graham

You know how before a party you clean up your house so that everyone thinks you live that way all the time? That's meeting someone at an awards show. ~ Lauren Graham

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now. ~ Lauren Graham

Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold. ~ Lauren Graham

Starring has nothing to do with how big your part is - it's a state of mind. ~ Lauren Graham

Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.' ~ Lauren Graham

Also, we decided that people who can afford giant bags of cocaine should really be embarrassed at leaving anything less than a cool hundy in the tip jar. ~ Lauren Graham

Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts. ~ Lauren Graham

It was just a coat, I know, but I held onto it for so long. I'm not even sure why I kept it. It was with me every day. It kept me warm and dry, and billowed behind me as I rode my bike across the lot in the wee hours of the night. I can't help feeling a little sad it's gone. [But], the coat has served its purpose. The sun is blazing, and I don't need it to keep me warm anymore. Rather than mourn the loss of my jacket, I will be thankful for the time we had together. I thank it for all it did for me, and then I let it go. ~ Lauren Graham

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. ~ Lauren Graham

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier. ~ Lauren Graham

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way. ~ Lauren Graham

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials. ~ Lauren Graham

Just keep filling up the pages. ~ Lauren Graham

In the meantime, perform every job as if you're being well paid, as someone who probably wasn't paying me well once told me. Which is to say: why not treat yourself now as the success you dream if becoming? Respect yourself and your work as you would if you were being paid to be the boss, and I bet you'll climb the ladder even faster. ~ Lauren Graham

Life will go on. ~ Lauren Oliver

Forgive her if she believed this would be the way it would go. She had been led to this conclusion by forces greater than she. Conquers all! All you need is! Is a many-splendored thing! Surrender to! Like ~ Lauren Groff

The only people don't suffer those are the ones who never do anything ~ Laurie Graham

A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end. ~ Donald E. Graham

I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. ~ Lauren Barnholdt

I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold. ~ Lauren DeStefano

Do you, House? Do you watch me all the time? ~ Christina Lauren

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. ~ Graham Greene

Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room. ~ Lauren Oliver

Many people plan financially for retirement - but not spiritually and emotionally. ~ Billy Graham

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. ~ Lauren Oliver

There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance. ~ Lauren Willig

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what. ~ Lauren Myracle

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it. ~ Lauren Beukes

Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn't be bored." Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker. ~ Elle Kennedy

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd. ~ Benjamin Graham

Oh that we would hunger to be filled with the Word of God; for there is no greater armor, no greater strength, no greater assurance that He is with us, and in us, when we go forth in battle equipped and nourished by His instruction and determined to stand firm on His promises. ~ Billy Graham

I'm not your gilded prince with the gilded chairs, Letty," Geoff said simply. "I couldn't be if I tried."
"I wouldn't want you to be." Letty's voice felt rusty.
"I'm not particularly bold or dashing or heroic. I'm happier at my desk than in a black cloak. And I've never entirely mastered all the steps of the quadrille." He looked soberly down at her. "But what I am is yours, if you'll still have me. ~ Lauren Willig

His happiness stretched out its wings and gave a few flaps. He ~ Lauren Groff