You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life. Aya Cash More Quotes by Aya Cash More Quotes From Aya Cash In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. Aya Cash competition country school What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head. Aya Cash fool acting class I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success. Aya Cash my-favorite actors giving Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do. Aya Cash jokes comedy play There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer. Aya Cash winning writing thinking Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into. Aya Cash acting wanted If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me. Aya Cash girl different children There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else. Aya Cash daughter mother thinking I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist. Aya Cash our-family artist thinking Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy." Aya Cash real jobs art We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv. Aya Cash kings people thinking Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected. Aya Cash come-up fighting jobs I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people. Aya Cash winning jobs thinking You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you. Aya Cash never-expect down-and happens I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent. Aya Cash age children thinking I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts. Aya Cash art The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?" Aya Cash missing play night We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real. Aya Cash being-real real The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat. Aya Cash actors reason Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected. Aya Cash hardest-job rejection jobs
