Top 25 Janet Varney Quotes

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.

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

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 love doing voiceover.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.’

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.’

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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