Shiri Appleby

“Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.”

“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.”

“I was in the pilot of ER: I played a 15-year-old pregnant girl they were treating. And then, in the final season, they were casting for interns.”

“I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.”

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

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

“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.”

“I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.”

“In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there's always something to learn.”

“Reality TV is not real.”

“She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.”

“Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.”

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

“I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.”

“Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.”

“They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances.”