Lauren Graham famous quotes

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
-- Lauren Graham

#Perspective #Important

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
-- Lauren Graham

#Goal #Important #Approval

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

#Mean #Truthful #Given

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

#Clothes #Pay

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

#Thinking #Trying #Aging

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
-- Lauren Graham

#Father #President #Different

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

#Nice #Shows

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
-- Lauren Graham

#Sweaters #Hair #People

There's nothing more important than a good story.
-- Lauren Graham

#Important #Stories

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

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

#Writing #Actors #Should

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.
-- Lauren Graham

#Men #Worst

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

#Real #Opportunity #Hands

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
-- Lauren Graham

#Growing Up #Smart #Thinking

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

#Flirty #Flirting #Care

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

#People #Sitting #Use

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

#Successful #Differences #Vision

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

#Mean #Practice #Ideas

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

#Character #Mean #Men

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

#Soldier #May #Sensitive

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

#Loser #Winner #Introducing

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

#Party #Dresses #Guests

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

#Break #Doughnut #Pledge

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.
-- Lauren Graham

#Important #Looks

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

#Long #People #Bigs

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
-- Lauren Graham

#Friendly #Made #Shows

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

#Mother #School #Play

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

#Jobs #Character

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

#Jeans #Want

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
-- Lauren Graham

#Doe #Television #Shock

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

#Trying #Television

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

#Father #Thinking #Keys

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

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Today

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
-- Lauren Graham

#Thinking #Cameras #Half

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.
-- Lauren Graham

#Tv Shows #Demand #Tvs

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
-- Lauren Graham

#Christmas #Dad #Party

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

#Jobs #Reality #Acting

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

#Jobs #Moving #Levels

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

#Girl #Wife #Suffering

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
-- Lauren Graham

#Moving #Thinking #Long

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.
-- Lauren Graham

#Cute #Idols #People

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

#Children #Growing Up #Parent

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
-- Lauren Graham

#Years #Shots

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

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Shows

Belly buttons are cool!
-- Lauren Graham

#Buttons #Belly Buttons #Belly

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

#Crazy #Writing #Water