Top 25 Shiri Appleby Quotes

A lot of the things I get sent are the girlfriend or the wife or the assistant, and those are not that exciting to me.

Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, you name it – I’m interested. I’m free. I’m looking for acting work. At the same time, you have to find a role you’re right for, and then there’s a slew of other actresses. That’s why I will pursue more directing. It’s like, who needs a boss? I’m right here.

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There’s been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I’m not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I’ve sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.

In terms of watching other directors, it’s more like I go on set now, and I’m prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there’s always something to learn.

I was in the pilot of ER: I played a 15-year-old pregnant girl they were treating. And then, in the final season, they were casting for interns.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

I think from here on it’s up to me to prove that I’m growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I’ve had so far.

Most of the roles I’ve had, usually the story’s about how the man affects my character.

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.

I’m the field producer whose job it is to manipulate the contestants to get them to do what we really want them to do to get the footage to make the show.

They ask questions like ‘do you believe in aliens’ and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances.

She wasn’t as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

‘Baywatch’ was one of those shows that you auditioned for all the time as a young girl. I auditioned once to play a blind girl and didn’t get it. I was constantly auditioning for it.

Just having more days of being the director on the ground, that’s been invaluable.

I’ve been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It’s just so much more convenient.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

Men are even afraid to say, ‘You look nice,’ or, ‘You look pretty,’ when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly – producers would constantly say things, but that’s kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

My career after ‘Life Unexpected’ took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

I’ve literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It’s really hard.

Reality TV is not real.

I’m a total ‘Project Runway’ junkie. I also watch ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians.’

Right now, my focus is really acting and directing. But I see the creativity and the work that goes into building a network, and it’s fascinating to me. If those doors open for me… I think just learning as much as I can at this point is really what it’s about.

I loved working with Adam Driver.