By guest author Carmen Lynne
After spending the greater part of my life as an actress and performer, I became a therapist in early 2007.
While I still do a little bit of acting when I have a chance, I now mainly spend my time helping other people to fulfill their creative ambitions or to just learn [...]

It can be a major decision to be a mother and still pursue a demanding life as an artist.
On her Twitter profile, Amanda Bynes says:
i want to be a mom but not til i’m 30 and even if i get married b4 then i still want to wait to have kids til long after i’m [...]

What choices and compromises do you make to gain attention and opportunities as an actor?
Romola Garai has expressed a number of thoughtful perspectives on these topics. Here are some quotes from her imdb.com profile.
On Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights :
“I wouldn’t have done something that I thought had no merit in it at all, but I [...]

Joan Chen comments about first seeing “Edward Scissorhands” in 1990:

“It was unique cinema that felt like pure magic. The bizarre beauty of the film and the gentle hero with his lethally sharp scissorhands stayed with me through out the years.
“Looking back, after almost 20 years, I now understand better the fierce longing and intense loneliness [...]

“I think it’s my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I’ve learned from the actors I’ve worked with is you don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t risk looking foolish, you’ll never do anything special.” Ethan Hawke
Those quotes are from the article Ethan Hawke says ‘Daybreakers’ is no ‘Twilight’: ‘It’s a [...]

Bryce Dallas Howard portrays the “unapologetic” Fisher Willow in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, from a screenplay by Tennessee Williams.
Howard says “The Hollywood scene, these parties, freak me out. I’ve never had a sip of alcohol in my life. I wasn’t interested in losing control.
“There was alcoholism in my family, so I saw the [...]