Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.
My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.
I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.
I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
No, I always wanted to be an actress.
Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
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