Quotes from Janina Gavankar


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


I always feel like I'm so busy.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


I'd rather control someone than be controlled.


I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.


I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.


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.


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


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.


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