Jeri Ryan Quotes (41 Quotes)


    I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

    I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

    We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

    We love our jobs, but I don't think any of us look at it as though we're doing a huge public service by getting this information out

    no doubt that he will make an excellent senator.


    I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

    This entire process has been a surreal experience. You have action figures, you have the Internet, you have drinking mugs in the shape of your head.

    I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

    They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

    I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

    I've had to learn how to use a gun. I was absolutely terrified when I realised it was not a stunt double, it was actually me doing this.

    I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

    I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

    I am an individual now. You can direct your comments to me.

    My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

    I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

    I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

    My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

    I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true.

    I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

    It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

    Cheating is often more efficient.

    The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

    It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

    This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

    It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

    I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

    The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

    My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.

    It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

    I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

    Impossible is a word humans use far too often.

    I loved working with Eric Close and J T Walsh.

    There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.


    West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

    I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

    I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

    The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can't get an audience that way. They would never promo the show for the next week.

    That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

    My husband and I have had a commuter marriage our entire marriage, with the exception of the one year I was pregnant and stayed home.


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