updated 03/12/02

• March 10, 2002: SAG Award For Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series: Thank you. [pause] Thank you. [pause] If the arts are a bridge to enlightenment and understanding, I can’t think of a more important time to be an artist and I can’t think of a show I’m more proud to be on than “The West Wing.” And I thank the people that have faith in me sometimes when I don’t. And that would be obviously Aaron Sorkin, Tommy Schlamme, Alex Graves, Chris Misiano, and my amazing cast who I love so much, and looking in your faces, you inspire me. And I love you all.

  And Stockard Channing, you are brilliant and amazing and I wish I – Aaron, I’m asking you to write more scenes with Stockard [laughter] because she is absolutely, she is the most beautiful, wonderful actress and I am so proud to share this with you, and with all of – everyone – if I say your names I’ll . . . I love you, John, Martin, Brad, Richard, [laugher] Janelle, Dulé, Melissa, Richard, Rob, everybody -- I love – thank you so very much. And my friends and family. Thank you. [applause] Article

• ''I just got to act with the actress I grew up idolizing, Meryl Streep. I play her girlfriend in a movie called ''The Hours.'' I had to pinch myself. We were in bed together, and all I could think was, I'm in bed with Meryl Streep! Oh my God! It was the most thrilling thing.''
  --''West Wing'' star ALLISON JANNEY on taking time off to do a movie role opposite the accent queen herself

• “I’m standing here for one reason: because of the sheer inspiration I’ve received from watching other actresses over my life, particularly in the theater. Four of them are in this category, especially the exquisite, elegant Nancy Marchand,” Janney said (Emmy acceptance speech) Article

• "There's something about me that says power and intelligence -- all the things that I don't feel, speaking to you now," Janney says with a laugh. "I play women who tend to be in the center of something that's whirling around them as they try to hold everybody in place." Article

• "I don't know what to do with you...lesbians and aliens, maybe?" --An agent once told Janney, apparently because of her height (The New York Times, December 23, 1996)

• C.J.'s no-nonsense," says Janney of her West Wing character, "and I'm all nonsense!"

• In response to EW Daily's Thanksgiving question, "what's a poor ol' celebrity got to be thankful for?"  AJ's answer: ''False eyelashes, martinis, and bikini waxes.''

• "I had to be successful at acting because I was such a bad waitress," says Janney (chatting with Tony Shalhoub in 1996's Big Night.)

• "You know what I love about having success as you get older? You appreciate it so much! It means so much more to me than to a kid who gets it right away." -People magazine profile, May 25, 2000.

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