Jane Kaczmarek Quotes

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It’s the perfect metaphor for life — a lot of pleasure, then it’s over. There’s great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it’s just a plant on your windowsill.

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I’ve been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

I think it’s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you’re the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

I’ve got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn’t have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

I’m not going to be on the show ‘Breaking Bad.’

For me, there’s a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I’ve worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Divorce is brutal and horrible and… you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I like to be with my children – not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they’re waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

Tennis lets you talk while you’re playing.

If I have makeup, I use a cleanser, but otherwise, I just use a hot cloth at the end of the day to keep moisture in my skin without stripping it off. I do splurge on La Mer, but other than that, I use just use Nivea from the drugstore!

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

My kids have a great dad. I don’t really want them to have a stepfather, and I don’t think they do, either.

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.