Jane Kaczmarek Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Also, Brad and I started a charity last year called the Clothes off our Back. And it's exactly that. We got the Emmy nominees and presenters to donate their gowns and their tuxedos to charity.

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

Brad is much more of a workout person. He wakes up every morning and does his yoga and can't go to bed without doing some kind of exercise.

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

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

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

I really like to talk when I exercise.

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

I've gone back to the Pilates class I took when I was pregnant with my daughter.

Like, when I was pregnant with my son three years ago, I weighed 175 pounds and had varicose veins the size of my thumb.

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.

People don't wear white on American courts anymore. I find it charming that Wimbledon still exists in the form that it does.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Then, the day before the Emmys, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every awards show since.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

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.

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.

Trivia

As of the 2006 Emmy Awards, Kaczmarek is a seven-time nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and has been nominated from 2000-2006 for her role as Malcolm's mother. However, she is still waiting for her first Emmy win.

Jane is 5 feet 6 1/2 inches (169 cm) tall.

Awards:2001 American Comedy Award Funniest Female in a TV Series for Malcolm in the Middle1996 Los Angeles Drama Critics Award Featured Performance for Raised in Captivity1996 Ovation Award Featured Actress (Play) for Kindertransport

She worked in the film Vice Versa - ( Robyn / RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video )

She worked in the film The Heavenly Kid - (Emily /Orion Pictures)

She worked in the movie Door to Door - ( Katharine Holloway)

Jane Kaczmarek worked at the film All's Fair - ( Linda / Media Home Entertainment )

She worked in the film Pleasantville - ( David's Mom / released in 1998 / New Line Home Entertainment )

Her sister, Mary, works for an Internet company.

Her brother, Jim, is a teacher.

Jane earns $100,000 for each Malcolm in the Middle episode.

Her son George was born in 1999.

Mary Louisa, her last daughter, was born on December 2nd, 2002.