J. Lynn Quotes

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state.

All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.

I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth.

Tell me what you want, sweetheart … Anything. And I’ll do it.

I’m serious about you, Avery. If you want me for real, you have me.

His chin grazed the top of my head and then his lips brushed across my forehead. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “I’ll be right here when you wake up, sweetheart. I promise.

I’m just not interested.” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes.” … “Then how are you not interested.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

It’s just a cookie, sweetheart.

We're partners." "Huh?" "We. Are. Partners.

I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family.

My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

I eat ranch dressing with my pizza; I dip it in the ranch. It is so good! I know, I am really weird .

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.

Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

I don't want to marry again. I did that.

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our mind, it's probably not worth telling.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.