I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don’t necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often. Janet Varney Read Quote
The whole time that I was doing the voice of Korra, I would always joke around saying that nobody’s gonna give me a job as an action star or a hero. I just do silly comedy. Janet Varney Read Quote
Even if you’re an optimist, there’s some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, ‘This isn’t gonna happen. This isn’t gonna happen.’ I really felt that way through the process of ‘Korra’ because I knew ‘Avatar,’ and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified. Janet Varney Read Quote
In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she’s coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men. Janet Varney Read Quote
There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods. Janet Varney Read Quote
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.’ Janet Varney Read Quote
Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I’ve seen the relationship that actors can create, in a bad way sometimes, with the rest of the people they work with. I just want to be a good representation of, ‘Actors are great! They’re not what some people might think they are.’ Janet Varney Read Quote
I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has. Janet Varney Read Quote
