Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.
As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.
I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
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