Quotes by Jaime Pressly

About Jaime Pressly:

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards (winning one) as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive and I Love You, Man.
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I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

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I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

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I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Jaime Pressly

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.

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The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

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I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

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Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.

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Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.

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I have a really great group of fans. I've been very blessed.

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I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

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I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.

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Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

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The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.

Jaime Pressly

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which makes me feel more productive. It would be like, 'I did five scenes today and ten pages.' That's television...

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I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

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Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

Jaime Pressly

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

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We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?

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Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy.

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Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'

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Author Bio

  • NameJaime Pressly
  • DescriptionAmerican actress, model, producer
  • BornJuly 30, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Model