JANINA GAVANKAR

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.

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

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

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'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.

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 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'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

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

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

I always feel like I'm so busy.

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

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

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 grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

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 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.