Jane Lynch

“I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.”

“I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.”

“So much of Sue Sylvester, the angry woman, came from that part of my life, wanting to crush other people's dreams and judging others so harshly, which is always just a way of deflecting your own self-judgment.”

“When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.”

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.”

“I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.”

“Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.”

“I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the stuff from the '40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the '50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I'm all over the place.”

“I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.”

“There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.”

“I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'”

“I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.”

“When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.”

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

“You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.”

“I don't really sit there and think, 'What would I like my life to be?'”

“I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.”

“I can fool people that I was educated.”

“Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.”