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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.

I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.