Top 145 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Lynch
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.
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'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.
I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.
I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.
I like for Sue Sylvester to be firing on all cylinders.
I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.
When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.
It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn't allow me to do it. They both said to me, 'I'm not going anywhere.' And that moved me so deeply.
It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.
I don't really sit there and think, 'What would I like my life to be?'
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.
That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.
The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.
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 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.
The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.
'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!
Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.
You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.
I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.
I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'
I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.
Charlie Sheen was such a pro.
There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.
I love being the villain.
I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.
I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.
Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'
I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be... I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay, and I still have an easy life.
I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
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 was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.
There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.
I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.
I worried too much when I was a kid.
There's nothing better than voicing a character. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing; you've got the script in front of you, and it doesn't involve your body: it's all about your voice, and it's really fast work.
I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
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 always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.
I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.
I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.
I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.
The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.
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