I don’t really feel comfortable unless I’m slightly uncomfortable. I don’t want to play myself all the time. – Janina Gavankar
I’ve always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it’s going to feel like that, to assume that you’re going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors – if you expect the worst, then it’s never going to be that bad. – Janina Gavankar
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials – that was my bread and butter. – Janina Gavankar
You’re an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot. – Janina Gavankar
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do. – Janina Gavankar
It’s ridiculous that people aren’t allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It’s infuriating. – Janina Gavankar
I can’t watch ‘Glee’ because I get so jealous that I’m not there with them doing it that I can’t even watch. – Janina Gavankar
I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That’s what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place. – Janina Gavankar
I’ve been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe. – Janina Gavankar
I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body. – Janina Gavankar
IMDb only lists specific projects. It doesn’t list theater, commercial, and most non-union work. You also have to pay to upload your reel to most sites, and some places still make you walk your DVD into their physical location. – Janina Gavankar
I want to see what technology’s going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn’t completely obliterated itself by then. – Janina Gavankar
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists. – Janina Gavankar
I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life. – Janina Gavankar