Jane Lynch Quotes

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

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

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

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.

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

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

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.”

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

A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian - ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage.

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

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

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

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.

We did an a cappella version, which I have always wanted to do, of the "Coventry Carol." It's beautiful, and we did it in three part harmony with no accompaniment. We have two a cappella songs that, in my opinion, are just gorgeous.

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

Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up on the screen to basically just say he has no idea who I am. That’s the father of my child!

I work with this wonderful five-piece band, The Tony Guerrero Quintet, along with Kate Flannery, who was Meredith the Drunk in The Office, and Tim Davis, who was the vocal arranger on Glee. The three of us sing, and the band is amazing. We've been working together for about two years. So, we decided to do a Christmas album in July.

Steve Carell, we’ve been nodding at each other for years now.

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

We have some extremely talented people that we've ripped off the Broadway stage. It's awe-inspiring how talented they are, and how can-do they are. They're at that stage of life where it's like, "Yeah, let's put on a show!" That's really fun to watch.

I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought

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

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

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.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

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

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

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

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

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

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

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself.

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

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

I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.

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

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.

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.