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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.