Jane Lynch Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought — Jane Lynch

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

Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself. — Jane Lynch

All the characters ever written are already inside you. It's just a matter of accessing them and bringing them forward. And having no fear of the dark side. — Jane Lynch

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

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

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

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

You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all. — Jane Lynch

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. — Jane Lynch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The meeting started, and I could barely listen for my self-mortification. I wanted the hour to end so I could ask her what it was I had done. And then, all of a sudden, it hit me - boing! This had NOTHING to do with me. I felt a wave of relief, an internal shift like I had just had a chiropractic adjustment. I realized that I had made something that had nothing to do with me into something that was all about me.

I saw that I had been doing this all my life. When I was a kid, my mom was easily annoyed, and I always figured it was me bugging her. After growing up like that, I was forever making myself the cause of other people's pain. It was self-centered and rendered me incapable of compassion for others, because I'm no good to anybody else when it's all about me. And frankly, most things have nothing to do with me. It was very adolescent, really. I got it, suddenly and profoundly. — Jane Lynch

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

I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it. — Jane Lynch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette. — Jane Lynch

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

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

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

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