Latest Allison Janney Quotes from Interviews

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• Annette Bening should've won Oscar for American Beauty. I mean, I know Hilary Swank was there, she was so great too... Annette deserves one. She better win. I'm an Academy voter, and I voted for her.

  Allison Janney

  Mean, Winning, Deserve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I never watched Lost. I just thought it would be fun to be part of something that was such a big part of pop culture. But I thought I was going to be acting with more of the other people. I didn't know that I was going to be on my own on the island, doing this whole other storyline.

  Allison Janney

  Fun, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.

  Allison Janney

  Husband, Character, Son

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't understand the reasons why I was there in the Lost episode - the mysteries of the island. I just instead made my own little reality, made it as simple as possible. I figured I was a crazy woman, just a little screw loose. I don't know how I got on that island. No one could tell me how I got there either, so I just assumed I got there on a shipwreck, and I went a little nutty.

  Allison Janney

  Crazy, Simple, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do like ensemble work. I would like to do a lead role, though. I didn't shy away from that.
  I'm desperately looking for a lead role to do in a film, an independent film, and it just hasn't come my way yet. I'm desperately looking for that role that will put me in a lead category. Or a television series.

  Allison Janney

  Independent, Shy, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me. Do it and get it to me immediately. I do want to be a lead. I want to play a lead role in a movie.

  Allison Janney

  Writing, Kind, Mercy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Aaron Sorkin wrote me one of the best female roles on television, I think. He's a wonderful writer for all people. If he chooses to write, hopefully he'll write something that involves more women next time, because I would love to do it.

  Allison Janney

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.

  Allison Janney

  Done, Wonder, Felicity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.

  Allison Janney

  Thinking, Social Network

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just wish that I had a part in everything Aaron Sorkin wrote. Sometimes I wish I was a member of an acting troupe where we all just kept working together, the same people. I can't, unfortunately, be in everything he writes. I'm excited for him, but I'm jealous that I wasn't a part of it.

  Allison Janney

  Jealous, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever a part for me, he would consider me for it. I hope so. Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, other times it helps you. It's just amazing to work with his scripts. There's never any fat in them. It's all perfect, and there's such a rhythm to it. The musicality of his writing - it's so specific and unique to him, and such a joy to play as an actor, because there's no sentimentality.

  Allison Janney

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.

  Allison Janney

  Fun, People, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• With John Wayne Gacy - the serial killer who dressed up as a clown - there's just something about clowns I don't trust. I don't think they're particularly funny. They're a little spooky. Not my sense of humor, I don't laugh at clowns.

  Allison Janney

  Thinking, Laughing, Serial Killer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think one of my big skills is making unlikable characters likable or real in some way. No matter how hateful people are, there's always something vulnerable about them, or something that you can understand or relate to. I think that's my job as an actress - to find those.

  Allison Janney

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that I choose the characters I have to play. You will like me, I don't care what I've done, you're going to like me.

  Allison Janney

  Character, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The wonderful thing about Crystal in Mr. Sunshine is that she doesn't have any boundaries. She's not aware socially of what's correct and incorrect. Crystal's probably the craziest character I've ever had to do and the furthest I've gone, with the only exception being Away We Go - I was pretty big in that.

  Allison Janney

  Character, Sunshine, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There are women in history throughout the world that need to be portrayed. Women don't stop being interesting at 20, they get more interesting and more fascinating and people are going to have to write about them. We're undeniable.

  Allison Janney

  Writing, Interesting, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It was great to have a Republican character as likeable as Alan Alda was in the West Wing. He was one Republican I would probably vote for; he was old school.

  Allison Janney

  School, Character, Vote

• It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.

  Allison Janney

  Parent, Leaving, Sad Day

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

  Allison Janney

  Night, Come Up, Exciting

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

• I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

  Allison Janney

  Song, Silly, Hobbies

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

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

  Allison Janney

  Nervous, Stage, Aspect

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

• The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

  Allison Janney

  Fun, Laughing, Rehearsal

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

• 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.

  Allison Janney

  Laughing, Serious, Comedy

  "Allison Janney Interview MR. SUNSHINE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Allison Janney

  Believe, Political, Way

  "Allison Janney Talks Working with Jason Bateman, Pranks, Her Desire to Be on HOMELAND, THE WEST WING, and More on the Set of BAD WORDS". Interview, collider.com. March 29, 2014.