Quotes from Jane Lynch

'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!

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

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.

I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

Don't deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

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.

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

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 can fool people that I was educated.

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

The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.

When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

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, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

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

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.