Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

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

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