Jane Lynch famous quotes

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

#Hands #Years #Careers

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Mother #Husband #Acting

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

#Want #Be Kind #Kind

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

#Art #Strong #Lessons

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Inspirational #Graduation #Good Day

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Just Friends #Friendly #Needs

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Mean #People #Laughing

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

#Gorillas #Parking #I Realized

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

#Events #Theater

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

#Real #Fans #Agents

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

#Clock #Heard

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.
-- Jane Lynch

#Kids #Arcades #Hung

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

#Jobs #Knowing #Likes

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

#Girl #Games #Video

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

#Wrecks #Littles #Firsts

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

#Fit #Designer #Wells

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

#College #Television

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Long #Age #Sound

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

#People #Pieces #Spotlight

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

#Easier #Angst #Stills

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Crazy #Exercise #Months

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

#Kitchen #Singing #Kitchen Table

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

#Believe #First Love #Firsts

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

#Football #War #Metaphor

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Character #Gay #Thinking

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

#Drinking #Drunk #Kind

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

#Art #Pushing #Boundaries

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.”
-- Jane Lynch

#Life Changing #Advice #Live In The Moment

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

#School #World #Four

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

#Years #Nodding

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

#Gay #People #Gentleman

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

#Inspirational #Graduation #Life Changing

I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought
-- Jane Lynch

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

#Coffee #Healthy #Outlets

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

#Journey #Goal #Needs

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!
-- Jane Lynch

#Children #Father #Who I Am

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

#Fall #Writing #Singing

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.
-- Jane Lynch

#Thinking #People #The End Of The Day

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

#Women #Teaching #School

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
-- Jane Lynch

#Jobs #Moving #Ambition