Lauren Graham Quotes
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Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.
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Belly buttons are cool!
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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!
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The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
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I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
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If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.
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I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.
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It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
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I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.
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I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
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All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.
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I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.
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It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.
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Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.
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There's nothing more important than a good story.