When Margot Robbie called her mom in Australia saying she wanted to quit acting, her mother's response reframed quitting itself: 'Darling, I think it's too late not to.' That single sentence crystallized the sunk cost of starting — and the identity shift that happens once you've committed enough that walking away costs more than continuing. It turned quitting from an escape into the harder, riskier choice.
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