"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work"
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The subtext is defensive and liberating at once. Defensive, because actresses are routinely asked to internalize failure as personal: a flop becomes an indictment of taste, bankability, even likability. Liberating, because she’s drawing a boundary between the work and the market’s judgment of it. That line quietly resists the culture of “performing earnestness,” where celebrities are expected to narrate every project as destiny and every review as a referendum on their soul.
Context matters: Hudson came up in a moment when rom-com stardom could be huge, then watched that ecosystem thin out, replaced by franchise logic and algorithmic hits. Her stance reads like adaptation, not apathy: keep making things, keep your identity portable, don’t let the scoreboard decide whether you’re good. It’s a posture that feels increasingly contemporary, less tortured artist and more working actor who understands that the machine will churn either way.
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Hudson, Kate. (2026, January 17). If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-a-big-hit-fantastic-if-its-not-then-its-78784/
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Hudson, Kate. "If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-a-big-hit-fantastic-if-its-not-then-its-78784/.
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"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-its-a-big-hit-fantastic-if-its-not-then-its-78784/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



