Shiri Appleby Quotes

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting 'L!fe Happens' while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.

I try to cover myself, to have another movie under way before the last one comes out. I've been able to just scrape by, holding out for good parts instead of taking anything.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I need work. I still audition for work. I don't get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.