Jeri Ryan Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• The whole s*x symbol or babe thing doesn’t bother me.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective – the more screwed up, the better.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• It’s supposed to be entertainment. It’s not supposed to be a documentary.

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

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• 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.

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• It doesn’t bother me that Seven has such an overtly s*xual 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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Birth:	22nd February, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Jeri Lynn Ryan was born in Munich, Germany. She is a German-born American actress. In 1989, she was chosen as Miss Illinois. She competed in the Miss America 1990 pageant where she finished as third runner-up, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition. She earned a BA degree in Theatre from Northwestern University in 1990. Her role in several films include: The Last Man, Disney's The Kid, Dracula 2000, and Down with Love. Her role in television include: Just Deserts (TV film), Pier 66 (TV film), Dark Skies (TV series), Star Trek: Voyager (TV series, Satellite Award for Best Actress, Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress), Boston Public (TV series), The Commuters (TV film), Shark (Legal drama), Dead Lines (TV film), Secrets in the Walls (TV film), Body of Proof (Medical drama), and Bosch (TV series).

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