Quotes from Shiri Appleby

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

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Reality TV is not real.

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

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

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?".

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

'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.