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There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

— Claire Danes

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

— Cicely Tyson

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

— Sean Paul

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

— Mariska Hargitay

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.

— Robert Klein

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

— Joe Morton

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

— Kevin Spacey

✗Opposing Perspectives

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

— Johnny Olson

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

— Mickey Rourke

Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

— Xavier Dolan

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

— Bela Lugosi