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Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

Never get caught acting.

I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.