Lauren Graham Someday Someday Maybe Quotes & Sayings

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

It's just a superstition, but looking at the river, the boats, the sign leaving Brooklyn that says "Watchtower" in big red letters, is a ritual that reminds me I am small, I am one of thousands--no--one of millions of people who looked at this river before me, from a boat or a car or the window of the D train, who came to New York with a dream, who achieved it or didn't, but nonetheless made the same effort I'm making now. It keeps things in perspective, and strangely, it gives me hope. — Lauren Graham

Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.' — Lauren Graham

What was it I said? Oh yeah. "WHO PUT THAT THERE? — Lauren Graham

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

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

In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. — Lauren Graham

So between critiques, the camera flew around on its arm like some sort of drunk helicopter, getting reaction shots from each contestant, and then from the judges. They asked us to hold our reactions as best we could until they got to us. Ever smile for a photograph for someone who doesn't know how to work their camera? Twenty times longer than that. My mouth started to tremble from trying to hold a smile. During one of these awkward frozen moments, one of the contestants grinned at me and mouthed the words "I love you," and I tried as best I could to communicate my thanks while also maintaining my frozen face. — Lauren Graham

want to feel something that is actually something. A feeling that is identifiable and real. A — Lauren Graham

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

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety. — Lauren Graham

I guess what I'm saying is, let's keep lifting each other up. It's not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities I've had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in positions of power. If I'm ever in that position and you ask me, "Who?" I'll do my best to say, "You" too. But in order to get there, you may have to break down the walls of whatever it is that's holding you back first. Ignore the doubt - it's not your friend - and just keep going, keep going, keep going. — Lauren Graham

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

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

It's good to be bored in the car, I always tell him. Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are? — Lauren Graham

Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself. — Lauren Graham

This world seems to have different rules from the other world I've been living in all of my life. I wonder if I'll ever learn them. — Lauren Graham

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

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

Maybe my life story is to be a person with a normal job and a normal life. That's what most people have. I was wrong to believe I was any different. — Lauren Graham

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process. — Lauren Graham

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

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

To me, Lorelai was equal parts Gal About Town and The Mom, plus a magical mix of smarts and humor that made her totally unique. — Lauren Graham

From the front I look to put together, but every other angle would reveal how false the front of me is, how much effort has gone into presenting a one-sided image of perfection. — Lauren Graham

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

Most of the streets in Manhattan go in just one direction. Some of the larger crosstown streets and some of the major north - south avenues have two-way traffic, but in general, the odd-numbered streets go west, toward the Hudson River, and the "evens go east," as Jane, the native New Yorker, taught me. — Lauren Graham

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

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

Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth. — Lauren Graham