Jane Lynch Quotes

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.

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.”

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

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.

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian - ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

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

There's nothing worse than an anxiety-filled, fearful actor who just needs that next job, because they're not gonna get that next job. Any time I got a job that made me feel good about myself, or made me feel, "Hey, I'm working my way up," then good adds to good. Because it makes you feel better about yourself, and that makes you more attractive, I think.

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.

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

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