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When you're challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you're willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you're willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you're almost fearless. ”
Some jobs are for women, and some jobs are for men. It has nothing to do with how capable women are. ”
I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career. ”
I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me. ”
I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art. ”
What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!' ”
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate. ”
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.' ”
Ask people who have the job you want how they got it. ”
As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job. ”