Janet Varney

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

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.'

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.

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.

Because Comic Con in San Diego is crazy, and it's very commercialized, and it's corporate, and it's all about money and selling, selling, selling... I think people want to go to smaller, specialized cons.

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

Being a teenager is complicated.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I've seen the relationship that actors can create, in a bad way sometimes, with the rest of the people they work with. I just want to be a good representation of, 'Actors are great! They're not what some people might think they are.'