As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.
The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'