Jane Lynch Quotes

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Fear
  • Respect

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Real
  • Family
  • Money

• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Said
  • Sarcastic

• Once a champion, always a champion.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Champion
  • Once

• I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Forget
  • Calendar

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • School
  • Small

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Light

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • May
  • America
  • Worst

• I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Long
  • Think
  • Food

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • More
  • Own

• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Money

• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Create

• I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the gym every day, too.

  

  Emmanuelle Vaugier
  • Gym
  • Hiking

• People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

  

  Jen Kirkman
  • People
  • Women
  • Done

• I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

  

  Jane Lynch