Top 40 Jane Lynch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it’s going to be a good day after all.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

5. “A lot of people are curious why I’m a lesbian. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage!”

— Jane Lynch

6. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

7. “Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

9. “That was the most offensive thing I’ve ever seen in 20 years of teaching – and that includes an elementary school production of hair.”

— Jane Lynch

10. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

11. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

12. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad’s room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.”

— Jane Lynch

13. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

14. “Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It’s always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you’re in that room by yourself.”

— Jane Lynch

15. “Steve Carell, we’ve been nodding at each other for years now.”

— Jane Lynch

16. “Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.”

— Jane Lynch

17. “I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ recording session.”

— Jane Lynch

18. “I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought.”

— Jane Lynch

19. “When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

— Jane Lynch

20. “I was a huge ‘Friends’ fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.”

— Jane Lynch

21. “I’m kind of a ‘Fix-It Felix’ video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

23. “I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.”

— Jane Lynch

24. “I’ve just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.”

— Jane Lynch

25. “You have the script in front of you. It doesn’t involve your body. It’s all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all.”

— Jane Lynch

26. “No one’s just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

28. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

29. “I don’t wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

31. “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.”

— Jane Lynch

32. “I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don’t have a writing technique to fall back on.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch

34. “The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it – the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.”

— Jane Lynch

35. “I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.”

— Jane Lynch

36. “I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said “Just hugged it out with Anna Faris,” and she was like, “Oh my God! OMG! OMG!” She got a big kick out of it.”

— Jane Lynch

37. “I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.”

— Jane Lynch

38. “My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.”

— Jane Lynch

39. “It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.”

— Jane Lynch

40. “I’m a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.”

— Jane Lynch

41. “I don’t know why, but I was born with an extra helping of angst.”

— Jane Lynch

42. “All the characters ever written are already inside you. It’s just a matter of accessing them and bringing them forward. And having no fear of the dark side.”

— Jane Lynch

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

— Jane Lynch