Shiri Appleby Quotes

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I want to try as many different roles as I can. I want to do everything.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.