Jane Lynch Quotes
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Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.
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It's always a good idea to go up for the male roles. You go up against a bunch of beefy guys, and the casting director then feels smart for taking you on, like he's the one who thought outside the box.
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When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.
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My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'
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When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.
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'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!
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I worried too much when I was a kid.
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I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?
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It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.
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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.
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Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.
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The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.
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My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
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I've always sung. My dad had a song in his heart and on his lips 24/7. A lot of the time, it was the same song and the same phrase over and over again.
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It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.
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I like for Sue Sylvester to be firing on all cylinders.
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I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
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You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.
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I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
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Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
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I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?
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I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
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My parents felt judged by me.
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I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.