Shiri Appleby Quotes

The best thing about my job is meeting people who are able to express their creativity in a way that suits them and gives them purpose.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

I will tell you that what gives me a sense of joy is having work to do that justifies pouring every ounce of energy I have into it. That's really a blessing to have in your life. And it gives you energy back when you have the privilege of doing work that makes you feel that way.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

I want to release music that is true to myself.

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.