Peregrym Missy Quotes & Sayings

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking. — Laura Fraser

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves. — Missy Peregrym

I'm very at home working with mythology. — Tori Amos

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up. — Missy Peregrym

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what. — John Galsworthy

You're my favorite way to pass the time. But time stands still when you're on my mind. — Kasie West

If God could do things like that, the world wouldn't look the way it does. He can't reach down and change things. He can't stop any of us doing what we choose to do.'

"What use is he then?"

Oenone shrugged. 'He sees. He understands. He knows how you're feeling. He knows how Theo felt. He knows how it feels to die. And when we die, we go to him.'

'To the Sunless Country, you mean? Like ghosts?"'

Oenone shook her head patiently. 'Like children. Do you remember what it was like to be a tiny child? When everything was possible and everything was given to you, and you knew that you were safe and loved, and the days went on forever? When we die, it will be like that again. That's how it is for Theo now, in heaven. — Philip Reeve

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do. — Missy Peregrym

I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you. — Missy Peregrym

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make. — Missy Peregrym

When I first got to L.A., I was shocked at how business was done, and how people ... it's like everything I was told not to fall for, I was surrounded by. And it was very difficult for me, because I just didn't like the industry at all. — Missy Peregrym

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV. — Missy Peregrym

There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them. — Missy Peregrym

You can't improve on saying nothing. — Golda Meir

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time. — Missy Peregrym

When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years. — Lisa Shearin

IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it. — Missy Peregrym

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize. — Missy Peregrym

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount. — Missy Peregrym

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women. — Missy Peregrym

I've been treated really well for 'Stick It.' There was this cop and he pulled me over and he was like, 'Oh my God, you're in 'Stick It.' I said, 'Yes. Yes. You're the last person I would think would be pumped up by this movie'. He let me go, so that was nice. — Missy Peregrym

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife. — Missy Peregrym

I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind. — Missy Peregrym

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one. — Missy Peregrym

When 'Rookie Blue' began, I was so proud to be a Canadian on a Canadian show that was getting fans in America. I'm so used to working on American projects with Americans, it was a big deal for me to be on a show that showcases our talent ... our 'peeps.' — Missy Peregrym

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am. — Missy Peregrym

Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre. — James Kelman

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in. — Missy Peregrym

I think guns are terrible. — Missy Peregrym

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway. — Missy Peregrym

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician. — Tom DeLonge

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know. — Missy Peregrym

I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart. — Missy Peregrym

I'm hoping that maybe I can be part of a disaster relief effort, something that's real life. That's kind of what I do anytime I stop working: 'OK, what's something that you've really wanted to do?' — Missy Peregrym

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection. — Missy Peregrym

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while. — Missy Peregrym

Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom — Simone De Beauvoir

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level. — John Currin