Janina Gavankar quotes:

You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.

I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

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

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

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 grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

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.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

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

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

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

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

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

If you look at everything I've done, each character is so wildly different from each other, and that's what "The L Word" afforded me the opportunity to do. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.