Susan Sarandon thinks her big breakup story shows how 'stupid' acting can be

"It's a heartbreaking story for anyone who wants to be an actor, because I never thought I wanted to be an actor, but I fell into acting, pretty much," said Sarandon in the Vanity Fair interview. "So that shows you how stupid acting is." At the time, it was her husband Chris who was auditioning for movies and just needed a stage partner. So she went to get an agent and auditioned. Suddenly, it's her who gets noticed rather than her husband.

She was cast in the movie "Joe", where she played a drug-addicted young woman. The film was very successful for the small production it was, which gave Sarandon new opportunities. "And because it was this huge hit, not necessarily a brilliant movie, and I wasn't necessarily amazing, but it definitely opened the door for me to other low-level jobs," Sarandon said. Although her career is now off to a good start, she says she was still not fully committed to art. "I guess I always saw my career as a means to an end, not an end in itself. So for the first few years, I don't know how many years, I just paid my school debt while playing."

Someone who begins without much interest in acting as a profession having a long and successful career that persists to this day can be read with both optimism and pessimism. It shows that show business can be "dumb," as Sarandon called it. Some people work their whole lives and never get their big break, and some may get lucky right away, even if they don't have the passion of others. Often, who succeeds and who fails in action depends on sheer luck, and a person's passion cannot change their luck.