Jennifer Aniston: I don’t have much ambition

By Tribute News on February 11, 2015 | Leave a Comment

Jennifer Aniston hasn’t fulfilled her acting potential because she’s not ”desperate” enough. The U.S. actress – who missed out on an Oscar nomination for her role in Cake as a suicidal woman addicted to painkillers – admits she doesn’t have enough ”ambition” and also believes she’s missed out on some acclaim because comedy movies don’t receive as much praise as serious films.

She said: ”I’ve never been looking for it. I mean, maybe that’s half the problem. I don’t have a lot of ambition. I don’t have that desperation of, ‘I’ve got to have it!’ I know how hard it is to be an actor just to begin with, but to be a working actor – you should just be grateful. And I love making people laugh. I find that is just as valuable as making people want to kill themselves.”

The brunette beauty – who turned 46 yesterday – insists she hasn’t starred in as many drama films because other actresses get the parts instead of her, but admitted after appearing in 2006 movie The Break-Up she wondered whether she had been doing something wrong by playing so many comical characters.

She added to Metro newspaper: ”I felt all of a sudden, ‘What have I been doing for the last 20 years? You scratch your head and go, ‘Was that just disrespectful and horrible?’ Because obviously, comedy is not as revered as drama. But I think comedy is really hard. I was on a show for 10 years [‘Friends’], and I saw a lot of the dramatic actors come in and try to be funny. It was like, ‘See, not that easy is it?’ But it looks so effortless.”

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