Raven-Symoné gets candid about how she truly feels about acting.
During a recent interview, the actress said that she never really liked acting. In a clip, the 38-year-old explained, “I never really liked acting. Take any being at three years old and thrust them into a school of one type of talent and saturate them until they’re 35 years old- they’re going to be really good at it.”
Raven-Symoné began acting at the age of 3 and was introduced to the world as Olivia in the hit TV sitcom The Cosby Show for its sixth season. She played the stepdaughter to Denise Huxtable played by Lisa Bonet.
Since then, she has acted in many TV shows and movies before landing her own TV show on the Disney Channel, called That’s So Raven, in 2003. She also starred in The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2.
“You know, 10,000 hours times 15. And I remember I was between the ages of 17 and 23 when this thought came across of, ‘I have no passion,” she recalled. “People would say, ‘You want to do a job? You have to be passionate about it.’ I said, ‘How much money is it?’ ‘Well, no, no, no Passion.’”
Symoné continued, “I said, ‘Well, my passion comes with the amount of zeros. So how much passion do you need me to have for this?” She then gave credit to the universe for allowing her to turn down acting opportunities to tap into her passion.
Raven-Symoné was offered the opportunity to host the new game show Scrabble based on the Hasbro board game. “It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s what passion feels like,’ because I’m a gamer. I love video games. And so I was able to free up energy to allow the universe to say, ‘Here’s something you would actually like to do in the position that you’ve been in for all of your life,’” she said.