Millie Bobby Brown
The Stranger Things breakout star told Variety after a few small roles on T.V., she was losing steam:
“I felt at one point I couldn’t do it [anymore], but then I got this [Stranger Things] and everything changed. Acting is like breathing to me.”
Zoe Saldana
According to Bustle, when talking about working on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Saldana told The Hollywood Reporter:
“Those weren’t the right people for me—I’m not talking about the cast. The cast was great. I’m talking about the political stuff that went on behind closed doors. It was a lot of above-the-line versus below-the-line, extras versus actors, producers versus PAs. It was very elitist. I almost quit the business. I was 23 years old, and I was like, [forget] this!’ I am never putting myself in this situation again. People disrespecting me because they look at my number on a call sheet and they think I’m not important.”
Brie Larson
The Captain Marvel star told The Sydney Morning Herald that she was about to quit acting when she got the role of her dreams, playing Toni Collette‘s daughter in United States of Tara:
“I was toying with the idea of either studying interior design or marine biology, but then I got a call.”
Jessica Alba
According to SyFy Wire, Alba had a horrible experience shooting Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, especially with the director Tim Story:
“I wanted to stop acting,” she said. “The director was like, ‘It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica.’ He was like, ‘Don’t do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.’ And I’m like, but there’s no connection to a human being. And then it got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don’t want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work? And so I just said, ‘Fu** it. I don’t care about this business anymore.’”
Letitia Wright
The Black Panther star described how her mental health almost made her give up. According to USA Today, for her BAFTAs (British Academy Film Awards) Rising Star award speech, she said:
“A few years ago, I saw myself in a deep state of depression and I literally wanted to quit acting. The only thing that pulled me out of it was God, my belief, my faith, and my family, and an email from BAFTA asking me to become part of the BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, I was like: ‘Let me try again.’”
Jada Pinkett Smith
According to RollingOut, at the Sundance Film Festival she explained:
“There were no questions in my early years. Maybe later on. I kind of lost my desire to be in this industry for a lot of different reasons, and I was actually thinking about going back to school for psychology. I was like, you’ve been doing this a long time, girl. Just sit back. I just had to wait until I was motivated again. I had to wait until something came along and sparked me because I had just lost the desire to be in this game.”
Michael B. Jordan
The 32-year-old actor and producer told Vanity Fair:
“I remember when I first came to L.A., and me and my mom, we went to all these agencies trying to get representation and they passed on me—WME passed on me, CAA passed on me, Gersh, all these guys passed on me.”
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Don’t Quit: These Actors & Actresses Almost Gave Up On Their Dream was originally published on globalgrind.com