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  • Actress
  • born 1976
  • 61 quotes

Janet Varney, an actress (born 1976), is quoted 61 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are San Francisco, Francisco, San and Voices.

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I love doing voiceover.

Being a teenager is complicated.

I love interacting with the fans.

I have two pets - a dog and a cat.

Let's face it: quaintness is creepy.

Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that.

I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.

Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

I just love the geeky comedy boys! Those are the guys I go for.

I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

Believe it or not, it actually does rain in L.A. from time to time.

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

I have this weird thing where if I close my eyes, I feel like no one can see me.

I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

Typically, I'm put in high heels and a tight top, which is not my personality at all.

I guess I knew I was a people person, but I didn't know how much till I had a podcast.

I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.

I love the podcast medium. I really like the intimacy of it. You're just listening to voices in your ears.

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.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

'Bridesmaids' was phenomenal. It deserves every accolade it's gotten, and it's exciting for every woman in comedy.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

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.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

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.

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.

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.

Just keep the idea in the back of your head: 'I can't control L.A. traffic. I'll leave earlier than I think I need to, and I'll get there when I get there.'

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.

No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves his mustache, drastically changing his look.'

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.

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.

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.

The whole time that I was doing the voice of Korra, I would always joke around saying that nobody's gonna give me a job as an action star or a hero. I just do silly comedy.

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.

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.

When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.

To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

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.

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.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

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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