Michelle Williams Talks Quitting Acting with Hobo Magazine

Michelle Williams is not your typical Hollywood star. Not only does she resent getting publicity for her personal life, but she’s also very serious about her career, without making too much of a fuss about it. Still, she’d quit acting.

Interviewed by Hobo Magazine for the latest print issue, Michelle opens up about topics close to her heart, such as parenthood, life under the microscope and, of course, her career.

While one of the most talented actresses of her generation, Michelle says she’d gladly give up her current career for a less glorified one.

“I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef, or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living,” she reveals in the interview.

“Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge. And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell,” Michelle explains.

When you get very good at what you do, your creativity is no longer stimulated and Michelle fears that she’s heading in that direction with acting.

Should that turn out to be the case, she’ll always have motherhood to fall back on.

She considers being a parent (she and the late Heath Ledger have a daughter, Matilda) the ultimate creative act, which means her entire universe revolves around her daughter’s wellbeing.

Being famous and hounded by the paparazzi makes everything very complicated, she says.

“Today we were in Los Angeles and we were starting to get followed by the paparazzi and it unhinges me in a matter of seconds. While nothing is physically harming you, emotionally I find it so traumatic,” the actress says.

“It completely shakes me, and terrorizes me. I find myself all of a sudden crying and screaming, so I realized this is not the best place for me to be the best parent I can be,” Michelle further says, adding that she’s not “equipped” to handle fame.

More on the interview here.