Jeri Ryan Quotes

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, 'This is what I'll do next.' I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn't work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I'll try to make it good. That suits me.