Comfortable being alone
In an interview about “Tristan and Isolde,” James Franco commented about how acting relates to being someone who is more comfortable being alone.
Question: You talked about being a loner when you were at school. How hard is it going from being a loner to putting that aside an being an actor cause it [...]

Ellen Page and Diablo Cody on taking risks
Ellen Page, to “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody: You have to take risks and go against conventional wisdom and structure. What was that like.
Diablo Cody: I guess I didn’t see the point of adding another conventional story to the pile; there are so many. I guess I would rather [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Judi Dench claims not to be “good at my own company.” Rather, to understand her own identity she needs to be in the attentive gaze of others – as the psychologist D. W. Winnicott puts it, “When I look I am seen, so I exist.”
Dench is clear on this point. “I need somebody to reflect [...]

“There is no prize, out there. The only prize is, this one, and what you feel and what you want to accomplish. …
“I feel that I very often watch a lot of young people sort of meander around without any idea about why they’re doing what they’re doing.
“I mean to want and to be ambitious [...]