Tim Robbins – HuffPost 7.15.11

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists these days?

Tim Robbins: First of all, don’t call yourself an artist. Approach it as a worker with a discipline. It’s up to other people to call it art. Do what it is your passionate is about, and do what will bring you joy. What I always tell actors who ask whether they should go on or not is if you’re doing it to become rich and famous, it’s probably not a good idea. If you’re doing it because nothing else brings you that joy and that fulfillment, then yeah, pursue it because you have to.

MR: Even though there are going to be some times when you bottom out.

TR: It doesn’t matter who you are or how successful or famous or rich you get, there is always a bottoming out.