Kerry Washington Has Been Trying To Quit Acting Since She Started

Kerry Washington has tried to quit Hollywood a lot.

The 46-year-old actress revealed in a new feature with W magazine that there have been a handful of times where she felt she was completely with done with acting, but then was convinced to stay each time a compelling script came her way.

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“I have spent a lifetime trying to not be an actor,” she confessed to the magazine.

Kerry added that she was and still is “always quitting this business, and then right when I decide that I’m done is when something extraordinary comes across my desk.”

“I was really, really done with this business right before I read the script for Ray. I was really, really done with this business right before I read the script for The Last King of Scotland,” she explained, before emphasizing that she “was entirely done with this business before reading the script for Scandal. This is what happens again and again.”

This isn’t the first time she’s opened up about her desire to quit the business sometimes.

Kerry previously told Marie Claire that she would rather pass on project then play a role that was iffy.

“Even in the beginning of my career, I would say I’d rather work another shift at the restaurant than do a movie that is going to be bad for women or Black people,” Kerry shared earlier this year. “Part of being an artist, being a creative person, is constantly being willing to be a beginner and do things you’ve never done, be in situations you’ve never been, stretch, grow. I’m so attracted to that kind of work, but it is also so f***ing scary.”

Kerry is currently preparing for her memoir to come out, and in an excerpt from the book, details the panic attacks that started when she was a child.