Shiri Appleby Quotes

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

I invented myself.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

You've got one life: find your voice within it.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.