Jane Lynch

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.

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 studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.