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I always feel like I'm so busy.
Janina Gavankar / Actress
Busy
Always Feel Like
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Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.
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I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.
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Dracula
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Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.
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Band
Names
Today
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I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
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Grew
Grew Up
Percussion
Piano
Classical
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When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.
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Nerdy
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I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.
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Furniture
Great Design Always
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I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.
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Thinking
Universe
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Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.
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I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.
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Certain
Knows
Reserved
Life Your Know
Certain Things
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I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.
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Battlestar Galactica
Favorite Show
Galactica
Supernatural
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I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.
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Transform
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You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.
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Foremost
Hire
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I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.
Janina Gavankar / Actress
Recognize
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I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
Janina Gavankar / Actress
Deserve
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I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.
Janina Gavankar / Actress
Actors
Done
Musician
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When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
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Bread
Chicago
Butter
Commercials
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Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
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Actors
Vice Versa
Vices
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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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Jealous
Glee
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I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.
Janina Gavankar / Actress
Uncomfortable
Time Myself Feel
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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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Crazy
Pilots
Up To You
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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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Passionate
Thinking
Vampire
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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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Care
Musical
Want
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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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Musician
Percussion
Produce
Identify
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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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Human Race
Hundred Years
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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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Infuriating
Life Love People
Straight People
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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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Cash
College
Groups
School
Life Money Music
Big Part
Musicals
Signed
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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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Gigs
Ideas
People
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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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Attention
Ensemble
Pay
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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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Atlanta
Dancer
Thrust
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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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Rain
Sound
Want
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I am definitely not the normal girl. I'm not some skinny blond, you know? I chose strong over skinny. So, I am honored that people think I'm sexy. I'm just really happy people accept me as I am and I don't have to change.
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Girl
Sexy
Strong
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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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Location
Work Walk Your
Commercial
List
Sites
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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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Assuming
Done
Freshman
Senior
Worst
Assume
Always Bad Feel
Expect
Group
Bad Feel Always
Safest
Seniors
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I've always just done things that come naturally, and that's always been surrounding myself with artists that I respect and that are way better at what they do than at what I do. I've worked my ass off to earn the right to get a shot.
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Artist
Ass
Done
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If you look at everything I've done, each character is so wildly different from each other, and that's what "The L Word" afforded me the opportunity to do. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.
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Opportunity
Character
Play
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I'm a musician - music will never go away - but my focus is acting, and I started late so I have to play catch-up. So that means I have to work twice as hard in this game. But it will never stop, I think I always feel I have to work twice as hard.
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Focus
Mean
Thinking
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I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass a game and a movie. I would die happy if I could be a voice in a game that I would actually play and create easter eggs with the team. That's my dream.
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Dream
Easter
Team
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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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Chicago
Character Me Anything
Character Actor
Commercials
First Place
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I always talk about if you want to be an artist, you have to be authentic because people can tell bullshit a mile away. There is nothing wrong with creating a character, standing behind that character, and that being an authentic performance piece, because that's a piece of art as well. But if you want to be an artist in any form, you have to know to come with it.
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Art
Character
People
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