Top 45 Janet Varney Quotes

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It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody som

It’s great to be an actor, and it’s great to embody something more than who you are.
Janet Varney
I always say I owe my sense of humor to ‘The Muppets’ because I didn’t necessarily know what was going on when I watched ‘The Muppet Show,’ and obviously, ‘Sesame Street’ was made just for me.
Janet Varney
I’m just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.
Janet Varney
I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they’re dealing with that are far more important.
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I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.
Janet Varney
Because Comic Con in San Diego is crazy, and it’s very commercialized, and it’s corporate, and it’s all about money and selling, selling, selling… I think people want to go to smaller, specialized cons.
Janet Varney
I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.
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I’m always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.
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If you go to my house, it’s not like I’m 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.
Janet Varney
I don’t particularly love watching myself on camera.
Janet Varney
Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad’s life where they’d be like, ‘Your dad changed my life. He’s the reason I became a lawyer. He’s the reason I started writing. He’s the only reason I stayed in school.’
Janet Varney
In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she’s coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.
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I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around ‘Be the leaf’ in my head. That’s not a character, but it’s something from the show that’s really impacted my daily life.
Janet Varney
We’re living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.
Janet Varney
Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn’t perfect.
Janet Varney
I can’t believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women’s-studies classes and never have addressed that the ‘Muppets’ were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!
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When you’re a writer, if you’re very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they’re guiding you rather than you guiding them.
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Gabriel Diani has been my friend and collaborator for 14 years. He and Etta Devine are two of my favorite people and two of my favorite creative minds.
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I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I’m not an arsonist!
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I have this weird thing where if I close my eyes, I feel like no one can see me.
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It’s possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.
Janet Varney
As me, I couldn’t love my cohorts P.J. Byrne and David Faustino more. I just adore them, and any opportunity to be in a room with them is just a kick in the pants; I love it.
Janet Varney
I do feel like, because my podcast is so specific, I’ve been really fortunate in that the kind of people it attracts tend to have interests that run with mine.
Janet Varney
The good thing about being in San Francisco is it’s a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.
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Let’s face it: quaintness is creepy.
Janet Varney
Los Angeles has been great to me, and I have a home there, and I’m so lucky I get to do what I do for a living. But I did not go down to Los Angeles really even with the intention of staying.
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I guess I knew I was a people person, but I didn’t know how much till I had a podcast.
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I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I’m just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.
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I love seeing cosplayers, not just of Korra, but anybody.
Janet Varney
Being a teenager is complicated.
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Even if you’re an optimist, there’s some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, ‘This isn’t gonna happen. This isn’t gonna happen.’ I really felt that way through the process of ‘Korra’ because I knew ‘Avatar,’ and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.
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I have two pets - a dog and a cat.

I have two pets – a dog and a cat.
Janet Varney
There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods.
Janet Varney
Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.
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I think there’s part of me that’s longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.
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Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.
Janet Varney
I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on ‘The Muppet Show,’ Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen’s standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age.
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I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.
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I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don’t pay attention to anything unless it’s positive.
Janet Varney
Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I’ve seen the relationship that actors can create, in a bad way sometimes, with the rest of the people they work with. I just want to be a good representation of, ‘Actors are great! They’re not what some people might think they are.’
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I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.
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One of the things I’ve learned in playing a character like Becca from ‘You’re the Worst’ is that there really is such a joy and freedom in behaving badly and in being a character that you do roll your eyes at. She’s just so delicious to loathe.
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I love interacting with the fans.
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It’s easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.
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I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn’t end up going to series.
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