Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Shiri Appleby

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

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

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.

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.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

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 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.

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

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'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.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

I loved working with Adam Driver.

Reality TV is not real.

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

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

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

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.

It feels nice after a long career as an actor to find your own voice and support that.

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

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

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.

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

The lead actress is like the host of the party, but when you're the lead actress and you're a producer, you're really throwing the party. You have so much control in making sure everyone is having a really good time and everyone is heard.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting people. You're like, "I'm not right for that person, but why am I not?" I think dating is a really interesting journey.

After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now.

I want to do work where I have something to say.

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.

As an actor, you're just brought on to fill one role, so it's nice to see what the entire journey is like. As much as I'd be allowed to do it, I would do it. I love it.

I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need.

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".

On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."