Quotes by Jane Kaczmarek

About Jane Kaczmarek:

Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character of Lois on the television series Malcolm in the Middle (2000–06). Kaczmarek is a three-time Golden Globe and seven-time Emmy Award nominee. As of 2014, she has been playing Pam in FOX's Us & Them.
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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.

Jane Kaczmarek

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.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

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.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

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!

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

Jane Kaczmarek

I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

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.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Jane Kaczmarek

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Jane Kaczmarek

I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.

Jane Kaczmarek

Author Bio

  • NameJane Kaczmarek
  • DescriptionActress
  • BornDecember 21, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor