Jane Badler Quotes

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I'm still the way I've always been. Lots of hair and eyes, a bit Raquel Welch-ish.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

I have no regrets about my life.

I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.