Jessica Pare Quotes

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

As you move along, it's about choices. Once you've gathered enough credits, you have to be more specific. You have to know what level of show you want to work on and be willing to turn down a lot of work to have the career you want.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

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.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

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've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.