Jane Lynch Quotes
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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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'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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The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.
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I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.
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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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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.
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I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.
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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.
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Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
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I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
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We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
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I never thought I would work with Meryl Streep. I also love Cate Blanchett.
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I love the character I played in 'Criminal Minds.'
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I'm not out to conquer anything, which I think is a good thing. That's why I also think crazy, different things come my way. I really don't have an agenda, and I'm really happy not to have one. I'm just keeping it light.
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In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.
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I think the only way we can really get you to laugh hard is if we take it to a deep psychological place. It has to resonate with you on a really deep level in order for you to really do that good guffaw.
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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.
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I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.
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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.
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The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.
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From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.
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When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
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I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
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Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.