Jane Lynch on Glee, Her Memoir, and Why She Refuses to Get on Twitter: "It's Too Overwhelming"

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch — beloved as the ferociously competitive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on FOX's Glee — returns with a special post-Super Bowl episode airing Sunday, February 6 at 10:30 p.m. Premier Guide Miami sat down to find out what that means — and what comes next.

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch — beloved as the ferociously competitive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on FOX's Glee — returns with a special post-Super Bowl episode airing Sunday, February 6 at 10:30 p.m. ET on FOX. In the episode, Sue launches a dangerous plan to win cheerleading Nationals while the glee club tackles Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Lynch is also known for her roles in Reno 911, My Name Is Earl, The L Word, Two and a Half Men, Boston Legal, Frasier, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

On the impact of Glee's success on her personal life: "I found out like in the middle of the first season that we have employment for three seasons, so that has never happened to me before. That is wonderful to know that I will be employed, barring a big catastrophe, for the foreseeable future. And I haven't had that in my life and it's a huge psychological relief. Then I'll probably go back to job hunting, like I always do. I think I'm starting to become more popular and the character has become iconic and they say all wonderful things and I'm very well aware of that fact."

On the memoir she was writing: "How it came together is I've been giving speeches at gay banquets, and not even just gay — but people wanting to know more about it. I started writing things down and a friend who's a writer said, 'There's a book in there.' A little tidbit I can give you is I grew up basically with everything handed to me. Not my career — I worked for that. But I had a really good family, I was brought up with a lot of love, but still I chose time after time after time to suffer over so much. And that mental component of suffering is the thing I think, if I can look back on my life, is a choice. To this day I still would choose maybe the angst over something when I really don't have to."

On the message of the memoir: "Basically what I'm going to do is, of course I have my own deep, dark, but I guess the message coming out of it is that it's all a choice on whether you suffer through your life — because the same things are going to happen to you for the most part. Do you have to have that mental component of suffering? That's kind of the point of the whole thing. I definitely was depressed and I thought everything was dark and hopeless, but that was a point of view that I didn't have to have."

On how Sue Sylvester influences women: "I hope that girls see what's possible for them. That they don't have to play a stereotype — and what Sue is, is not a stereotype. You don't have to be anything anybody tells you that you have to be. You can find these really crazy characters out there and there's more possible for you than maybe you're led to believe."

On her first love and Twitter: "My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard." On Twitter: "I won't be getting on Twitter because I really don't understand it. I understand it, but it's too overwhelming."

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