183 Quotes by Lauren Graham

Most of the streets in Manhattan go in just one direction. Some of the larger crosstown streets and some of the major north—south avenues have two-way traffic, but in general, the odd-numbered streets go west, toward the Hudson River, and the “evens go east,” as Jane, the native New Yorker, taught me.

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

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!

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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