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“It’s all been a big sham.”
“Sometimes I wake up in the morning before going off to a shoot, and I think, I can’t do this; I’m a fraud. They’re going to fire me — all these things. I’m fat; I’m ugly…”
Those admissions by Kate Winslet [Interview mag. Nov 2000] were made after her Academy Award [...]
Kept in a box
“Too many people want to get rich and famous and do it quick,” Jaime Pressly said in a recent interview article. “To get anywhere you have to be focused, ambitious, headstrong and really, really want it. It won’t come on a silver platter, and it won’t last long…
“I started [acting] 13 years [...]
In his article The Art of Making Meaning [a summary of his podcast], creativity coach and author Eric Maisel speaks about a client of his:
“Jack, an actor, had excellent verbal skills but a poor physical presence on stage.
“With my help, he decided that he had to take responsibility for that aspect of his career and [...]
“Celebrity hits like a bomb. So you have to find what makes you stable in the storm.”
Jimmy Smits adds, “Then, no matter what’s happening around you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.” [imdb.com]
In my article The Dark Side of Fame, [...]
