Quotes from Janina Gavankar

I always feel like I'm so busy.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

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

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

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

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

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

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

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

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

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 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've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

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

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 can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it that I can't even watch.

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

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.

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

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