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Men's Health Best Life Online, "The Thirty-Something Woman," January, 2005
"You take getting involved sexually with a man more seriously. You know who you are more when you're in your 30s and you're not as willing to share yourself, your bed, your body, and your spirit with someone who hasn't really earned it—who you don't really connect with." 
Janel Moloney, 35, actress, The West Wing 

 

From a "Behind the Scenes" article with the Cast, September, 2002
"I don't know," Janel Moloney, who plays Donna Moss, admitted. "They constantly bring us together and then apart and back together. Your guess is as good as mine."
- Answer to the question, "And Josh and Donna? Are they ever going to hook up?"

 

From the Hollywood Reporter, September, 2002
Whitford said he was thrilled for the first-time "West Wing" nominees, especially Janel Moloney, "because my part is so much the product of being with her."
- Bradley's reactions to the 2002 Emmy nominations

 

From the "West Wing Scriptbook"
"Donnatella Moss, Josh's assistant, sites at her computer
behind Leo.  Donna is devoted to Josh and hates admitting it."
-  This is the script direction for the "Pilot" episode, where Leo approaches Donna at her desk, asking where Josh is.

 

USA Today: Critic Robert Bianco's snippet for the episode "100,000 Airplanes"
"The West Wing didn't have much success with staff romances this season. The budding relationship between Josh and Amy (Bradley Whitford and Mary-Louise Parker), which hits a snag tonight, seemed designed to test exactly how much punishment viewers could take."
-  I thought this one was hilarious and had to add it even though he doesn't work on the show!

 

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Dalton Ross snippet for the episode "H.con 172"
"Ever notice how this season went downhill once Josh started dating Mary Louise Parker? Coincidence?"
-  Another funny one I just had to add!

 

NY Daily News TV Vue, the Beck/Smith column: "Wing crew off-balance"
"West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin keeps the series troupe guessing, reveals Janel Moloney.
Moloney, the beautiful blonde who plays the sassy aide of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) on the multi Emmy-winning show, says that Sorkin "doesn't plan things out very far in advance-and it keeps us on our toes."  She notes that her character will continue to be Josh's assistant, "And I expect the relationship between them will heat up - but I don't know if it will be next week, or eight years from now."  

 

Bradley Whitford, 2001 Emmys Speech
"Um...I work in the West Wing so I have a really fast speech to say. I must dedicate this award to my beloved late father, George Whitford, and to my beloved, very present mother, Genevieve Whitford. Thank you for my family. Aaron Sorkin...how does an actor thank a writer for the role of a lifetime? I have no idea -- you gotta write that speech for me. Um, Tommy...I want to thank you and Tommy for pushing the most radical envelope there is: one of intelligence, and wit, and hope. This award is the result of looking into the eyes of Martin Sheen, John Spencer, Richard
Schiff, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, and the utterly exquisite Janel Moloney. What a joy for us all to hit our strides together. I want to thank John Wells, Peter Roth, Scott Sassa, [some other names I didn't catch]. I want to thank my children for their miraculous
selves and for saving my wife and me from lives of terminal self-involvement. And most of all--and I've waited to say this--I want to thank my electric, hilarious wife, Jane Kaczmarek. My love, you have brought such color and laughter and sweet life to me. My heart is so full...of you. Thank you."

 

Bradley Whitford, "The Official Companion to 'The West Wing'"
"Donna and Josh are barely in check.  It's very complicated.  I think they're absolutely crazy about each other, but she's my assistant and it would be, of course, inappropriate.  I think I know deep down that emotionally, as a human being, I can't function without her and I think professi9onaly, as a human being, I can't function without her, either."

 

Janel Moloney, "The Official Companion to 'The West Wing'"
"What I've always focused on from the first day is my relationship with Josh.  That's all I really ever pay attention to.  I think they're just absolutely mad for each other.  I think it's probably something they both struggle with personally and they don't really know how to express it and they don't really want to admit that they have the feelings that they have.  So they just kind of are going and working and dealing with what they have to deal with and that's about as far as they've gotten.

I associate my time on this show distinctly with Brad.  I really feel like that's my central relationship on the show.  It's always a pleasure anytime I work with him.  Any scene I do with Brad is particularly enjoyable."

 

Aaron Sorkin, "The Official Companion to 'The West Wing'"
"Janel Moloney came to us via Sports Night.  She did an episode of Sports Night in the first season and just parked it in the bleachers with one scene that really knocked me out.  The role of Donna was a small, recurring, supporting role.  That was its intention in the pilot.  She was in every episode the first year, then we made her a series regular.  We simply put the proper title on her this year.  She was a series regular in the first year, too."

 

Janel Moloney, "The Official Companion to 'The West Wing'"
"I had already worked with Tommy and Aaron on Sports Night.  I actually read for C.J.'s role first.  And I read for Donna and I just loved the part right away; even though it was petite, it was fully formed.  The character was there.  All of the elements that are there now were there just like golden nuggets in the first show.  Every week after that, I would have a little bit more, and I'd see a different side of my character, and then a little bit more.  It just kept expanding.  And then during Christmas they asked me to join the cast as a regular member."

 

Bradley Whitford, Houston Chronicle, February 12, 2002
"She [Josh's recent love interest Amy] has been so interesting and, obviously, I'm insanely in love with Donna (his assistant, played by Janel Moloney), although I don't seem to
acknowledge it to myself, even."
On Josh's recent storyline with the character of Amy

 

Bradley Whitford, Amanda Henry Wisconsin State Journal
"I am ready. Been ready for a long time. And I remain ready."
When asked if Josh & Donna will get together

 

Janel Moloney, A&E Biography Magazine
"The first thing they should do when they start cloning people is clone Brad Whitford. I think it should be a constitutional right that all women have one. He's just a lovely guy and he's been extraordinarily kind to me."

 

Bradley Whitord
“I really kind of live in fear of any West Wing web sites.”

 

Bradley Whitford, A&E Biography Magazine
"Our relationship was never written as a frustrated romantic thing.  But that's the way it ended up because I just fell in love with her when she came into the room. These are people who way down in their reptilian brain are made for each other."
On the relationship between Josh and Donna

 

Bradley Whitord, ET Online
"The first day that she shot, I didn't know Janel at all. And we shot one take of this thing, and I went back to Aaron, on my knees -- I said, "I love her," because I just thought she was funny without knowing she's funny. Sometimes she knows. (laughter) I just loved the relationship right off the bat. Then you get these things from Aaron, like in the Christmas episode, where there's a moment where I give her a gift. Where you realize there's really something here."
Brad, talking about Janel in an interview with ET online

 

Aaron Sorkin, A&E Biography Magazine
"She was so good in the pilot that we had to write her back into the second show. And she just kept scoring in every episode; I couldn't get enough of her. So by the end of the first year we said why don't we just make her what she already is - a series regular."
On making Janel Moloney a series regular for Season 2

 

Aaron Sorkin
“I think the law of large numbers tells us that when 15 million people are watching something, several of them are going to be crazy.”

 

 

 

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