Kerry Washington wrote at one point that she almost quit acting five times. “I love being an actor. I love the research and the rehearsal, but I don’t always love the business around it,” she says thoughtfully.
“The business of show is sometimes exhausting to me, and I think it was really hard for me before I became a producer, to just feel like I was at the mercy of other people’s tastes. To just be waiting to be invited to the party. And then so I started throwing my own parties. I think I felt like a victim a lot of the time, and I didn’t want to walk through life feeling that way.”
