Emma Watson
Acting in the final two “Potter” movies, and thinking about choosing college (maybe Columbia University), Emma Watson recently talked about criticism of her work as Hermione, and modulating her perfectionism.
“I will look back on this part of my life and I know it will be special, but it used to be that if I [...]

James Earl Jones, who is getting a lifetime achievement award Jan. 25 from the Screen Actors Guild, still radiates wonder at being part of the acting profession.
“What fascinates me is that every actor is given a charge, a task — no matter what your motive was in taking the role, even if it’s just to [...]

“Mustering up enough self-esteem to say, ‘I want to be an actor,’ was a big turning point.”
Julia Roberts  [Parade mag. Nov 9 2008]
Many creative people report feeling incompetent, inadequate and having low self esteem at times. But there are ways to shift those feelings.
A number of film actors report they don’t watch their own movies. [...]

“Actors and actresses, because that’s their career, can be sort of self-obsessed.”
Kristen Bell says that for her new film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” she “just looked into the depths of the most hard-to-admit or vulnerable or bad characteristics of my own personality and what an actress can become if given that kind of self indulgence or [...]

“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 [...]

Escape into comedy
Amanda Bynes began professionally acting at the age of seven, and at age thirteen became the star of her own tv series The Amanda Show.
Bynes says she understands the feeling of being an outsider, one of the themes of the film “Hairspray” – in which she plays Penny [photo].
“I grew up having terrible [...]