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Janina Gavankar – Apple’s Press Day for The Morning Show in Los Angeles

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Janina Gavankar

  • 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 be with Dracula than the Wolfman.
  • You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.
  • I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.
  • I'd rather control someone than be controlled.
  • 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.
  • I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
  • 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.
  • 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 want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.
  • When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
  • When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.
  • I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.
  • 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 believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
  • I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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