Explore Quotes by Jane Lynch

I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.

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.

I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's.

I love that there are all these macho guy actors out there that have secret desires to be on 'Glee.'

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.

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

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.

I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

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.

I was filled with angst all the time, but when it came down to it, I dove into what was in front of me, and I always did my best. I invested 100 percent. And that's what saved me.

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.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it's so truthful. It's so raw.

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.

I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.

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.

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 do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the stuff from the '40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the '50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I'm all over the place.