Shiri Appleby Quotes

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.

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

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.

Reality TV is not real.

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I’ve always just been able to do it.

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

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

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

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don’t know if I’m always peaches-and-cream.

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.

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.

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

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.

‘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.

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

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.

I’m not going to do the story any service if my acting isn’t strong.

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.

It’s hard to get material. I haven‘t made a movie before. I have two episodes of television that I think have come in really great, but it’s really hard to get directing work.

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 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.