All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.
If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.
