Janina Gavankar Quotes

#1. I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

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#2. Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

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#3. I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

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#6. I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

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#7. I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

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#8. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

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#9. I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

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#14. I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

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#15. You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

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#16. I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

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#17. Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

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#22. People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

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#23. Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

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#24. I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

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#25. I always feel like I'm so busy.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

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#28. 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.

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#29. When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.

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#30. You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.

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#31. I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.

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