Jane Lynch Quotes
I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.
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I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team.
