If the audience is responding very well to comedians that are hacks, and I don't do well, I don't feel as bad, because I feel like their taste is different than mine. They're laughing at somebody I would never laugh at, so that makes it okay, because obviously our tastes are not in the same place. And comedy is subjective, so I feel like maybe the failure wasn't all mine. I don't think they ever would have really enjoyed me. So sometimes that's a little easier, but not much.
Janeane GarofaloAs actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.
Janeane GarofaloI would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.
Janeane GarofaloI say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
Janeane Garofalo