A biography for Janina Gavankarhasn’t been written yet.
“I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.”
“I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.”
“I'd rather control someone than be controlled.”
“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've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.”
“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.”
“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'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 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'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.”
“I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.”
“I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.”
“I always feel like I'm so busy.”
“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.”
“When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.”
“You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.”
“I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.”
“I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.”
“I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.”
“I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.”