Janina Gavankar Quotes

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

I think acting is getting better and better.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change. If people compare me to Jagger and the Stones I would be the one to be put down ... I've been far more progressive than any of them.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?