Janet Varney

“I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.”

“I have this weird thing where if I close my eyes, I feel like no one can see me.”

“When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.”

“Just keep the idea in the back of your head: 'I can't control L.A. traffic. I'll leave earlier than I think I need to, and I'll get there when I get there.'”

“Typically, I'm put in high heels and a tight top, which is not my personality at all.”

“Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.”

“It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.”

“Being a teenager is complicated.”

“To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.”

“I guess I knew I was a people person, but I didn't know how much till I had a podcast.”

“When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.”

“I have two pets - a dog and a cat.”

“I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.”

“I just love the geeky comedy boys! Those are the guys I go for.”

“We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.”

“I'm just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.”

“I don't particularly love watching myself on camera.”

“Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.”

“I do feel like, because my podcast is so specific, I've been really fortunate in that the kind of people it attracts tend to have interests that run with mine.”

“I always say I owe my sense of humor to 'The Muppets' because I didn't necessarily know what was going on when I watched 'The Muppet Show,' and obviously, 'Sesame Street' was made just for me.”