• Name: Janeane Garofalo
  
• Height: 5'1"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: September 28, 1964
  
• Birth Place: Newton, New Jersey, USA
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: James E. Taylor High School, Houston, Texas
  
•   : Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island (majored in History and American Studies)
  
• Relationship: Pete Caldes (drummer with Boston rock band The Gravel Pit), Craig Bierko (actor; dated in 1999), Mitch Rouse (actor, director; separated spring 1997), Bob Odenkirk (actor, comedian), Ben Stiller (actor, director; dated in 1992)
  
• Father: Carmine Garofalo (executive; divorced)
  
• Mother: Joan Garofalo (secretary)
  

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• "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
• From her book "Feel This Book," co-written with Ben Stiller: "Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in."
• After 9/11 disaster from article in Commentary magazine, November 2001: "Who would have thought that I'd be angry on behalf of my country? I'm used to being angry at my country."
• "The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off."
• "You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages."
• "A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminst woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me. It's about those signifers, and about what the right in this country has managed to do to perpetuate anger over what they mean."
• "We're (women) our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men."
• "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."

• Slamdunk Film Festival: Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)

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