Lauren Graham Quotes

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really.

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

To me, Lorelai was equal parts Gal About Town and The Mom, plus a magical mix of smarts and humor that made her totally unique.

In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

his college girlfriend, Everett.

If absolutely everything important is only happening on such as small screen, isn't that just a shame?

You know how before a party you clean up your house so that everyone thinks you live that way all the time? That's meeting someone at an awards show.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

What was it I said? Oh yeah. "WHO PUT THAT THERE?

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

This world seems to have different rules from the other world I've been living in all of my life. I wonder if I'll ever learn them.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

And dear, if you should someday become famous, don't write a cookbook.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Every bit of advice below was actually given to me by a fancy person, or someone who knows a fancy person and the methods they use to stay fancy.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Belly buttons are cool!

Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts.

Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.

Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself.

In my experience, there's no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

something so regal and linear about her.

The lens feels like another person in the room, a person who never speaks or smiles, who only stares without blinking, never looking away.

Just keep filling up the pages.

It feels like I'm an actor in an Italian movie from the '60s, saying the placeholder lines into the camera, waiting for the real ones that come later.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Maybe my life story is to be a person with a normal job and a normal life. That's what most people have. I was wrong to believe I was any different.

As my friend Oliver Platt used to say to me about hopes and dreams I'd share with him: 'It's coming, just not on your time frame.

want to feel something that is actually something. A feeling that is identifiable and real. A

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.'

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.