Top 37 Jane Kaczmarek Quotes
#1. If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
#2. I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
Jane Kaczmarek
#4. Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.
Jane Kaczmarek
#5. When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#6. If I have makeup, I use a cleanser, but otherwise, I just use a hot cloth at the end of the day to keep moisture in my skin without stripping it off. I do splurge on La Mer, but other than that, I use just use Nivea from the drugstore!
Jane Kaczmarek
#7. I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.
Jane Kaczmarek
#8. I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
Jane Kaczmarek
#9. One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
Jane Kaczmarek
#10. Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.
Jane Kaczmarek
#11. Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life
a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.
Jane Kaczmarek
#12. I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.
Chris Pratt
#14. I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.
Jane Kaczmarek
#15. Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.
S.J. Kincaid
#17. My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.
Jane Kaczmarek
#18. For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.
Jane Kaczmarek
#20. The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
Geoff Mulgan
#22. I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.
Jane Kaczmarek
#23. People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
Dan Pallotta
#24. LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!
Jane Kaczmarek
#25. It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
Jane Kaczmarek
#26. When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself ... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.
Jane Kaczmarek
#27. Divorce is brutal and horrible and ... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.
Jane Kaczmarek
#28. [F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
Pericles
#29. There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
Jane Kaczmarek
#30. You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
Jane Kaczmarek
#31. I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.
Jane Kaczmarek
#32. I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.
Jane Kaczmarek
#33. It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
Jane Kaczmarek
#34. Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
Jane Kaczmarek
#35. Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.
Jane Kaczmarek
#36. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hannah Arendt
#37. Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.
Chris Hardwick
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