Quotes from Jane Lynch

I've actually never done standup before.

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

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 looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of looking fabulous every time, and I care about it a great deal. I'm very vain.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

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'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

I love being the villain.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.