Jane Lynch Quotes
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I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'
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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 has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
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When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.
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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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Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.
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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 don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?
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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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My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
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It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.
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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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I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
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I worried too much when I was a kid.
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My parents felt judged by me.
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I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.
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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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Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
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I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.
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It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.
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When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.
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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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I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.