I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.
Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.