My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'
My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.