The Third Gilmore Girl Quotes

“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“You don't have to miss out on the joy of learning something you're passionate about. If it's in you, it's out there waiting for you.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone, smile because you had them in the first place.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“If it’s meant to work out, it will. If it isn’t, it will just make me available for what I’m supposed to be doing instead.” (Sometimes it was reassuring; sometimes it wasn’t.)”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“There's a lot more to being human than this finite, mundane, earthbound world we live in, that we're really part of a much greater cosmic whole that's all around us.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Aren’t we lucky that there’s such a wide variety of dreams to choose from, and so many people who choose them?”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I found my passion when I was a child and was blessed to be good enough at it to make it my career. I don’t think about the many times I fell nearly as often as I think about the many times I got back up.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I personally think it was Logan, by the way. I was always Team Logan.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“The end of the world, turned out to be just the beginning.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“There's no way to prepare for what somehow felt so sudden. He was here. Then he wasn't. He never would be again. And there was nothing I could do about it.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Proving that sometimes serendipity shows up in our lives disguised as the worst news you could possibly imagine.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“What on earth would we all do without one another?”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“And thus began another adventure down the hilariously useless rabbit hole of second-guessing.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I was very grateful that abortions were legal when my need for one came along in 1978, but to be perfectly honest, I'm sure I would have found an illegal way to terminate this pregnancy if it had come to that, since as far as I was concerned, it was my only responsible option.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“No way would I try to talk someone out of their dream, no matter what it is. Whatever it is, I believe you immerse yourself in it, work hard at it, express yourself through it, challenge yourself with it, give yourself every opportunity to fall in love with it, and explore the adventures that come with it. If it's the right dream for you and it allows you to support yourself, so that you're not pursuing your dream at someone else's expense, it will probably last a lifetime. If it stops being enjoyable and fulfilling and you fall out of love with it--if it starts feeling like drudgery to the point where it becomes painful and depressing-there's nothing wrong with saying, "Okay, what else do I want to do with my life?" and start pursuing that dream.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“In the end, I’ve come to the conclusion that as long as I’m comfortable with myself, my work, and my life, I don’t feel compelled to apologize for the fact that this is how old I am, and this is what I look like.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I’m so lucky to be me, because I get to hang around with myself. It had nothing to do with ego and everything to do with a lifelong awareness that I’ve always enjoyed my own company.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Anyone who’s married to an addict who shows no interest in doing anything about it needs to be prepared for the probability that sooner or later, the only hope of surviving intact is to get out.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“You’re standing there six feet in front of me, you whisper something to Bob and point at me, and then you laugh. You have a correction to give me? Give it. You want to tell me I’m doing something wrong? I’m all ears. But don’t point at me and laugh and expect me not to mind.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Relish it. Inhale it. Live it.
Grab every moment of it.
You’re so talented.
And I don’t want you to ever get to the point where you think,
‘I don’t really feel like doing the show tonight.’ Do it.
Give yourself a chance to be adored one more time because you will be. And you’ll carry this exquisite experience with you for the rest of your life.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I don't think about the many times I fell nearly as often as I think about the many times I got back up.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“There's nothing permanent, except change.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“If it’s meant to work out, it will. If it isn’t, it will just make me available for what I’m supposed to be doing instead.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Lauren and Alexis each had their own, and Ed and I shared one, which was great fun. He was smart and funny and a real professional, and we quickly discovered that we had a lot in common. We were both happily married, with homes on the East Coast. Not only did we both come from New York theater backgrounds, but I’d forgotten that we actually won Tony Awards on that same magical night in 1976—mine for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in A Chorus Line, and his for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play called Mrs. Warren’s Profession. We were even mutually addicted to the New York Times crossword puzzles, which we did together every day we worked.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“And against my better judgment, I was also in love.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Lee did his damnedest to take care of me while I healed, but nothing made quite as much of a difference as the day he looked at me and said, “I love you so much it makes me want to cry.” Pain or no pain, walker or no walker, I’d never felt so powerful and so invincible in my life as I did in that moment. I still relive it, and it still fills me up.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“while we dancers were, to quote Tony, 'the blue-collar workers of the performing arts.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Losing my mom was the worst, most devastating thing that had ever happened to me. When I lost her, I didn’t just lose my mom. I lost my hero. My biggest fan. My fiercest protector and my wisest, most patient teacher, who taught me everything from my first ballet lessons to honesty, to not being defined by my circumstances, to always, always loving myself, because if I was special enough to be loved by her, I must be worth loving.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone. Smile because you had them in the first place.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“You know those rare people you’re introduced to for the first time and instead of saying, “Nice to meet you,” you’re tempted to say, “Oh, there you are!”? It’s as if you’re not new to each other, you’re actually old friends who’ve just been waiting for a chance to reconnect. That’s how I felt with Lauren Graham, who was playing my daughter, Lorelai, and Ed Herrmann, who was playing my husband, Richard.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir