Stand-up comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo was the poster child for dry and caustically witty women in... (Learn more)
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"I don't get offered a lot of star roles. My agent would prefer to think I'm star material, but if the supporting role is good, I'm willing to do it." - Janeane Garofalo to USA Today, Oct. 6, 1997
"I'm a harsh critic, and I hate EVERYTHING that I ever do, The only thing I'm proud of is 'Larry Sanders'. Everything else I take great issue with. My best experience was 'The Ben Stiller Show'. My worst experience was 'Saturday Night Live'. That's well-documented. No need to go into that." - Garofalo to Us, April 1996
"I'm jealous of her in every category. She's funnier than I am, more feminine than I am, and has a better career than I do." - Garry Shandling half-joking to Entertainment Weekly, July 21, 1995
"Real life, bodywise, I'm OK. But something happens when you put me on film. I turn in to Gerard Depardieu, I become Rock Solid Girl." - Garofalo to The Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 5, 1997
"Recently I got Diane English's latest script. It's for a sitcom that's going to be directed at Generation X people and it's about a bike messenger service: It's so uncool that it's unbelievable. What the fuck does Diane English know about being a bike messenger!? First of all you can't do comedy by committee and that's what TV is all about: groups of uncreative people making decisions and trying to reach the lowest common denominator. If you keep spoon-feeding people shit, that's what they're going to ask you for. And also more literate types don't watch that much TV. There's a reason for that: if there was better stuff on, they'd watch it. It's not that people hate the object known as the television, they hate the insulting programming. I love bad TV: I get a big kick out of "Chips" [sic] reruns, and "Melrose Place" is so abominable that I love it, but I'm watching it because it's so bad I enjoy it; it's like a car wreck." - From Paper, December 1993
"When Janeane smiles, she is one of the most beautiful girls I have ever known." - friend and co-star, Vince Vaughn to The Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 5, 1997
"[God] seems very man-made to me. There are so many theories, and no everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one." -Janeane Garofalo to the Mr. Showbiz.com website, Dec. 4, 1995
Garofalo has "think" tatooed on her wrist.
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