Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Penny Johnson Jerald

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Penny Johnson Jerald.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Penny Johnson Jerald

Penny Johnson Jerald is an American actress. She played Beverly Barnes on the HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show, Kasidy Yates on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sherry Palmer on the Fox series 24, Captain Victoria "Iron" Gates on the ABC comedy-drama series Castle, and plays Dr. Claire Finn on the Fox/Hulu science-fiction series The Orville.

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.
Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.
Often, you don't want to know too much, because it does affect your performance. When you're shooting a series for nine months out of the year, you don't want to anticipate too much, because you're going to work and you have to enjoy this thing too.
The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room - one foot in the other world and just holding on. — © Penny Johnson Jerald
The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room - one foot in the other world and just holding on.
I love a good challenge.
Give me the action. I come from a place of fighters. My father was a fighter, a boxer, and Penny loves to box. So give it to me until my body won't do it anymore. Bring it on.
I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.
Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.
If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.
If it violates me physically, then it's not worth it to me. There will always be another job where you don't have to take your clothes off or have a gutter mouth.
As a female, you either have a whole bunch of female friends or none.
I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
I'm the TV girl.
I think I take away a naturalistic approach to acting from doing 'The Larry Sanders Show,' a way to put aside acting and just exist in the world of what's being handed to me.
My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.
With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.
I wasn't an avid watcher of the original 'Star Trek.' But they'd pull out this thing to communicate without wires and you thought, 'Yeah, right.' Now... we're doing that with cellphones. So I think our minds are more open to the unimaginable.
It feels good to be a couple of characters, sometimes in the same day.
Well, traditionally, my husband and I go back to our farm in Virginia but we do Christmas every day. We truly do. For us, it's about giving. We are of the Christian faith we believe that if people can see God in us, then we're actually doing our job.
To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I thought it was another movie coming out.
I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.
I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows. — © Penny Johnson Jerald
I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows.
I'll take a secret to my grave. I'm really good at that.
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