Zitat des Tages von Jane Lynch:
I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.
Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
I'm an actor more than anything else.
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.
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.
I loved working with Cybill Shepherd. We had a good time together; we enjoyed being girlfriends. It was a real comfortable fit for us. I loved putting on a suit and tie.
A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
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.
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.
I didn't have a coming out moment.
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.
Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.
I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.
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.
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.
I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.
I think about Chicago as being a very actor-centered theater town, and people aren't in it to get to the next level, like movies and television. We're there for the love of the theater. So I think it fit right into my particular skill set, which is I love performing live.
The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.
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.
I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.
I've actually never done standup before.
I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.
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.
I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.
The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.
The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.
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?
I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.
Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.
When I'm not feeling good about how I look, I figure if I just buy the right piece of clothing, I'll feel all right.
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.
It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.