Allison Janney Quotes
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I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.
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I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.
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I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.
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I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.
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I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
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I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
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I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
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I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
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I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
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I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!
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Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.
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I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
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It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
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The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
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The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.
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The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
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As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.
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I say I'm 5 feet 12 inches. I'm definitely 6 feet. In my heels, I'm 6 feet 3 inches.
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I'm actually a pretty shy person in real life with new people.
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
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I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.