Allison Janney Quotes

I've decided 'Breaking Bad' may be one of the best TV shows ever, but I had to watch every last episode of the first four seasons to come to that conclusion.

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

I love 'Lost' and 'Mission: Impossible III.'

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure.

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

'Psych' was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many '80s icons as we possibly could.

The roles on 'American Horror Story' are so complicated.

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.

Compared to the other work I've done on TV, 'Breaking Bad' was funny. In the beginning, I described it as a dark comedy.

What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.