Jane Lynch

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I love the character I played in 'Criminal Minds.'

'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!

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

I can fool people that I was educated.

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

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.

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.

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

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

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

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 love Jennifer Saunders, the 'Absolutely Fabulous' creator.

I'm not out to conquer anything, which I think is a good thing. That's why I also think crazy, different things come my way. I really don't have an agenda, and I'm really happy not to have one. I'm just keeping it light.