Top 80 Lauren Graham Quotes
#1. From the front I look to put together, but every other angle would reveal how false the front of me is, how much effort has gone into presenting a one-sided image of perfection.
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#2. 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.
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#3. The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
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#4. Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.
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#5. Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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#6. 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.
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#7. The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.
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#8. Because here's the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you. But it can be hard when you feel ready for Happy Couplehood and you seem to have missed the train.
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#9. And dear, if you should someday become famous, don't write a cookbook.
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#10. Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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#11. I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.
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#12. I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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#13. If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
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#14. Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on.
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#15. As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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#16. Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
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#18. Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.
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#19. We all have to start somewhere.' So start somewhere, anywhere, and give me an idea of what it is you'd like to do. Tell me EVERYTHING. What is your DREAM?
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#21. It's good to be bored in the car, I always tell him. Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are?
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#23. You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
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#24. Sometimes the idea of doing something is the most fun part, and after you go through with it, you feel deflated because you realize you're back to looking for the next thrill.
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#25. The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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#26. The lens feels like another person in the room, a person who never speaks or smiles, who only stares without blinking, never looking away.
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#27. I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I'm a loser, and see if they can't agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.
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#28. Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.
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#34. What was it I said? Oh yeah. "WHO PUT THAT THERE?
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#35. When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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#36. I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.
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#37. Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really.
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#41. In my experience, there's no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.
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#42. One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.
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#43. I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
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#44. I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on
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#45. 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.
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#46. Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.
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#47. Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.
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#48. Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
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#49. All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.
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#50. These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'
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#51. If absolutely everything important is only happening on such as small screen, isn't that just a shame?
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#52. I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
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#53. Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
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#54. You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
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#55. 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.
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#56. But life doesn't often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn't be called life, it would be called vending machine.
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#57. Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.
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#58. All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
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#59. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
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#60. 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!
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#61. Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.
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#62. We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
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#63. It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
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#64. Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles
they're crazy!' and it's funny.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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#68. The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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#69. The Chosen Butts became an instant club of sorts. We tried our best to be professional and not act overly excited, but it was clear we were bonded because of our excellent butts I mean acting ability.
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#70. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better.
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#71. Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
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#72. While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.
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#73. want to feel something that is actually something. A feeling that is identifiable and real. A
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#74. I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.
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#76. My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.'
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