Top 30 Jaime Pressly Quotes

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

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I’ve carried with me in Hollywood.

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

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

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

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

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

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

As a dancer, I’d dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

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

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

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going – they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

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.

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.

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.

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

It’s like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don’t want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy – and separate – than together and miserable. I don’t want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don’t work.

I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

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

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.

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

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.

I think it’s sexy when women have shapely bodies.