Quotes from Janet Varney

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

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.

I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.

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.'

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.

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

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

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

I'm just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.

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