Jane Lynch Quotes

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.

The camera looks into your soul.

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.

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.

We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.