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I'm a woman; I'm going to fluctuate.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: You can't teach it. I've always had this voice inside of me saying, "You're going to do it, don't give up!" Maybe it's because I have a lot of testosterone. I don't know. I just have so much drive. There's nothing you can do or say that's going to stop me from going where I want to go.

When somebody is kissin' my ass and sugarcoatin' everything, that's when I say no.

Classic is classic for a reason.

Jaime is spelled that way because it means "I love" in French. Pressly is always misspelled, with an e, because people think it's gotta be spelled like Elvis.

The people who actually give a damn about me spell my name correctly.

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards. After the dance, we had to come out and do a forward roll or some other little trick. My trick was this thing where I took my legs and literally wrapped them around my head, and then I put my hands down and I walked around the stage on my hands -- I was a little contortionist, you know? And so I walk down the mat and back, and then Miss Jodi goes, "Okay, Jaime, put your legs down." But I couldn't! I was wearing tights and I had this hairpiece in my hair, and the tights got stuck on my hairpiece, and I couldn't unwrap my legs. I was like, "I'm stuck! I'm stuck!" But Miss Jodi, she was a cool customer. She just reaches down and puts her hand through my legs and picks me up like a basket. And then she says, "Wave good-bye, Jaime!" And I did. And everybody just lost it laughing and clapping, and she carried me offstage. When I got in the back and they got my legs undone, I went, "Listen, Mom, I'm famous! I'm going to be famous!"

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

It's not that I want the control; it's just that I want to be able to take care of myself, which is why I've worked as hard as I have -- so no one can tell me what I can and cannot do. When you're financially equal, there's no resentment.

We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?

My father taught me what it is to fish -- to be able to breathe, to be able to chill out and wait for the fish to bite. Simple things like that have really helped me stay in this business, because it's a waiting game. You've gotta be able to calm down and not take every job. You wanna wait for the big fish.

You get one negative thing out of your mouth about somebody, and seconds later you trip and bust your ass. It happens instantly.

I love television because I get to stay home.

Comic timing: You're either born with it or not.

Earl is not like an everyday TV show. We shoot a minifilm every week. There is such a thing as good television and good writing.

I was supposed to be on that first plane. I was in North Carolina, and I needed to go to L.A. To get there, I had three different options -- none of which were direct flights. One of the options was Raleigh to Boston to L.A. At the last minute I changed it. I was like, a) I don't want to get up that early, and b) it's stupid to go around your ass to get to your thumb. So I canceled it last minute. And that turned out to be the first plane to hit the World Trade Center. I don't really like to talk about it, but there it is. It's what could have been.

Once you've appeared in Playboy, you can't ever work for Procter & Gamble.

Pretty runs out.

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