I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy. Lauren Graham More Quotes by Lauren Graham More Quotes From Lauren Graham It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends". Lauren Graham show-business fun The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it. Lauren Graham shock doe television 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. Lauren Graham keys father thinking While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one. Lauren Graham want wanted I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work! Lauren Graham life-is-hard hard-work thinking I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me. Lauren Graham important looks I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. Lauren Graham doughnut pledge break 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! Lauren Graham flirty flirting care Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST. Lauren Graham worst men Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. Lauren Graham actors should writing I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on Lauren Graham clothes pay 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. Lauren Graham water-bottles crazy writing Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible. Lauren Graham dad party christmas Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets. Lauren Graham hard-work photography culture If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now. Lauren Graham levels jobs moving Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading. Lauren Graham character men mean I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor. Lauren Graham idols cute people I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school. Lauren Graham waiting morning school Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. Lauren Graham growing-up parent children All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100! Lauren Graham shots knows years