Lauren Graham Quotes
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There's nothing more important than a good story.
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I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still wanted to hear about it. I do love how we came back to it, but it was never up to me. It won't be up to me this time, either. If it ended there, I would be sad, but I also like what we did.
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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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Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.
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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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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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I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on.
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
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I think it's really a good thing.... It's the best thing for the show, and I feel really good about it.
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While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.
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Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
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Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.
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Belly buttons are cool!
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
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Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
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I felt all kinds of pressure on myself...I didn't want to disappoint anybody. But that is nothing that compares to someone dealing with a health issue, so my shit is no big deal.
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Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
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I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.