There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
From Gwyneth Paltrow
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
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