183 Quotes by Lauren Graham

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

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.

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. 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.

Eventually I learned that, in the beginning at least, it was better for me to be finished than to try to be perfect. I had to get out of my own way.

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.

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

I think living in a beautiful space is important, since actors are artists after all, and we’re therefore more acutely affected by everything around us. Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we’re afraid of telling the truth.

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.

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!