Allison Janney Quotations

Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.

It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and "I'll get it better tonight." So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.

I'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.

I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.