Firefly’ was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show. Jewel Staite Read Quote
The fact of the matter is that we’re all aging, and there’s this stigma that older actresses don’t work as much as younger actresses, and I don’t think that’s true anymore. Jewel Staite Read Quote
I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it’s so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor. Jewel Staite Read Quote
My job is never boring. It’s always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I’m the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living. Jewel Staite Read Quote
I’ve just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I’ll be playing, the people I’ll get to work with and things like that. Jewel Staite Read Quote
I started out doing things like ‘Flash Forward,’ where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called ‘Higher Ground,’ where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then ‘Firefly’ happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again. Jewel Staite Read Quote
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. Jewel Staite Read Quote
There’s nothing better than a sci-fi fan, let me tell you. Once you’re in with them, you’re in for life. Jewel Staite Read Quote
The only real difference between shooting ‘Firefly’ and ‘Serenity’ was that on ‘Serenity,’ we had a lot more freedom with time. When you’re shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with ‘Serenity,’ we could shoot one scene all day long. Jewel Staite Read Quote
The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women. Jewel Staite Read Quote
