Top 35 Miriam Shor Quotes

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

Not every director does this, but I did: I made a list of every shot you’re going to set up for every scene in the script.

I don’t Tweet or Twat. I’m not on Instagram or Facebook.

My philosophy is to eat as healthy as I can whenever I can, but not to beat myself up when I don’t.

I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun… or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I’m in pain.

It’s interesting in seeing when I’m talking to men in particular and telling them I’m an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I’m a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

I went to the gym 4 days in a row in January of 2016. That’s the last time I went.

Whatever your opinion on it, ‘Sex And The City’ was undeniably a show that told stories where the main focus was on women and not on men.

I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of ‘Nova’ and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don’t think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.

To be front and center watching Keri Russell work is amazing.

I think that, as women, we’re often asked to apologize for our own power, or we’re asked to undercut ourselves, and it’s deemed unattractive to have faith in our abilities.

I’ve got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It’s kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It’s awesome and scary, because they’re so much cooler than me.

That’s what I love doing – understanding another person’s perspective that’s really different from mine. To me, it’s like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas ‘Sex And The City’ had these characters where the women had their own independent stories.

Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.

I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven’t spoken up for.

Reading ‘The New Yorker’ – I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read ‘Shouts and Murmurs.’ Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters.

The thing I know about Diana Trout is that she’s the hardest-working person. She even says it in season one – that nobody works harder than she does. I believe that’s always been true about her. That is why she has high expectations of everyone around her.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don’t look at men that way.

At any age, you are growing up at some level, but as far as maturing and growing up, a lot of that happens in your 20s: a lot of mistakes still to make and insecurities. But at around 27, I started to come into my own as a real adult.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, ‘No women over 35 can audition.’ That was in the breakdown. I don’t think they would do that anymore – I would like to hope that they wouldn’t put that in writing – but it’s mind-boggling.

It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That’s the goal I’m shooting for. When they revive ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ for the seven-hundredth time.

I live near Thompson Square Park, and there are a lot of colorful people I see in the park – a lot of different personalities and homeless people – you get to know them. And every now and then, there is suddenly someone who is no longer around, and you’re just like, ‘Wow,’ but you never really know what happened to them.

I had to ask myself if the reason I had never asked to direct before was because I really didn’t want to, or because I didn’t think I deserved a spot at the table.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, ‘Oh my God, you aren’t making your own clothes? You didn’t make your own bread? And you also don’t have a career, and you don’t look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven’t published yet?’

My dad taught at the University of Melbourne. I visited Sydney another time. Then we went up to Cairns, then down the Great Ocean Road. I have friends from Perth, where I’ve never been, so I’d love to do that.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I’m always interested in those people. They’re the ones who surprise you.

I used to go and hang out at Patricia Field’s store when it was on 8th street before it moved downtown. Amanda Lepore would be there, and I would be obsessed with the shoes and the make-up – everything. I just knew it was a creative place that I wanted to be around.

‘Hedwig’ was the first audition my agent ever sent me on. I still have the slip of paper where I wrote down the appointment. I wrote down, ‘Headwitch and the Angry Itch. Yitzhak. Croatian ex-drag queen billed as the last Jewess of the Balkans Krystal Nacht.’

When I gave a direction to an actor in the show, I know their whole journey better than a guest director could know it.

My dad was a professor, and he had a Fulbright to teach in Venice, so we lived there when I was really little, and then we moved to Detroit, like you do. But then my parents split up, and my mom had just fallen in love with Italy, so she decided to move back to Torino.

I’m fine being addicted to chocolate and French fries.

Lily Tomlin, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Janet Mctyre. I saw all these women on stage, and I experienced a feeling that is the artistic equivalent of huffing paint – the world kind of went away, and I felt exhilarated. Also, I drooled a little.

What I love about Encores! is that it’s a tremendous amount of work in a short amount of time, but it’s just so festive and so celebratory and fun. It harkens back to the old days of just getting together and putting on a show.