Shiri Appleby Quotes

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

Prison matures you.

Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I've been around the block.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

I'm older, and I'm better. I'm not old, but I'm older and wiser.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.