Mila Kunis gets candid when speaking on the industry. She believes that you can get eaten alive in her line of work, because so much of what she does is based on just a few people opinions which can vary greatly and really affect you, which is why she thinks it’s important to also be interested in other things and not to get too caught up in the drama the industry often creates:
“If all my eggs were in this basket and I had nothing else and I was just so enamored with it all . . . This industry can eat you alive. I think it feeds you a lot of bulls–t and then spits you right back out, and then you get caught up in it because so much of it is perception and opinion. The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you’re a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you’re a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It’s just a matter of opinion. And when your only source of happiness comes from that opinion, you go mad. So I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. I mean, you do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.”
Miley feels privileged to be where she is now, and is happy she doesn’t have to worry about finances anymore. She feels a great freedom comes with that kind of position because she can now pick roles on what she is really passionate on rather than because it brings in good money, although she admits that she doesn’t have a lavish lifestyle at all and likes to live quite humbly:
“Well, honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that. I don’t live lavishly, so it’s not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day. I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. [laughs] So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.
