Raven Symoné Reveals She Never Really Liked Acting: ‘My Passion Comes With The Amount Of Zeros’

Raven Symoné recently spoke candidly about her complicated relationship with acting.

via: Complex

The That’s So Raven star made the confession during a recent interview with Tavis Smiley on Los Angeles’ KBLA Talk 1580 radio station.

“I never really liked acting,” Symoné, 38, said in a clip of the interview circulating on social media. “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.”

According to IMDB’s Tango Papa, Symoné got her start on The Cosby Show opposite Bill Cosby playing Cliff Huxtable’s step-granddaughter Olivia beginning on the show’s sixth season when she was merely three years old. After a series of TV and film projects, she gained notoriety in 2003 when she starred on Disney Channel’s That’s So Raven and later, The Cheetah Girls.

“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,’” Symoné 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.’”

“I said, ‘Well, my passion comes with the amount of zeros. So how much passion do you need me to have for this?” she said with a laugh.

However, the former child star explained that she wasn’t able to tap into her passion until she felt able to turn down acting opportunities she would normally have accepted.

In a twist of fate that she credits to “the universe,” she recalled being offered the opportunity to become the host of the televised Scrabble game show, based on the board game from Hasbro.