Anne Hathaway Is Proud Of Her Successful Acting Career

Anne Hathaway, 36, has come a long way since she played Mia Thermopolis in “The Princess Diaries”–and Hathaway herself is sometimes surprised by her stunning success.

“I never thought that things would go this well, and I never thought that I’d still be, like, hitting the pavement as hard as I am now. But I do love it. I really feel lucky to do it,” Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight. “I had a mistaken idea that there would be a point where you’d made it enough that you would be able to stop hustling. Like, I thought there was gonna be a moment where you were just like, ‘Oh great, now I get to sit back. I’ve won this, and my movies have done that and now people come to me.’ That’s never really happened.”

Hathaway is now the mother of a young son, but that hasn’t slowed her down. Her latest film, the comedy “Hustle” co-starring Rebel Wilson, debuts in theaters this month. Hathaway says she’s grateful she took her career so seriously from the very beginning.

“When people say you really have to love acting because it’s hard like that’s an aspect of it that I don’t think people think [about]. Because people think, ‘Oh, I’m gonna get famous and it’s just gonna be this really glamorous lifestyle,’ but you really will have to work just as hard in a different way than you do in the beginning when nobody knows who you are,” Hathaway said. “If you get successful it just becomes a whole other thing.”