Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Related In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin... HARLAND WILLIAMS I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and... DOROTHY HAMILL I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game. DAVID BENIOFF When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the... CHLOE SEVIGNY I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offe... RON HOWARD My friends have noticed that if I suddenly go through a couple of months' unemployment, there se... REBECCA HALL My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a his... MARIE LU The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very tale... JEAN DUJARDIN My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da... ROBERTA PEARCE I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them un... MALLORY ORTBERG I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting... IKE BARINHOLTZ That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unac... VICTORIA JACKSON I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face fo... DIANA QUICK There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of ... DAVE NAVARRO Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life ... STEVE JOBS Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined the Pussycat Dolls, the b... NICOLE SCHERZINGER I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo... KAMALA HARRIS I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child ... TRACY CHEVALIER I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l... AVA DUVERNAY I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at... MATTEO MANASSERO When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I... GARY VAYNERCHUK When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was... CYNTHIA ERIVO I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with -... GARRY SHANDLING In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ense... CASEY NICHOLAW I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unend... MARIANNE WIGGINS I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res... JACK MCBRAYER I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better... BEN MENDELSOHN I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, t... JENS LEKMAN I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca... ETHAN PECK I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very ... DANIEL CLOWES My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, ev... ALESSIA CARA I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't g... JERRY LEWIS I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, ... HELEN MIRREN I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that... MADHURI DIXIT I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be... QUINCY JONES It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoy... SAMMY HAGAR My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Co... TOM ELLIS I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And... STEPHEN DUNN As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... JIM HARRISON My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put ... PAUL O'GRADY It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know wh... WAYLON JENNINGS I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It... ELLIE GOULDING I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,... ANITA BROOKNER There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th... TABATHA COFFEY I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch... LANA PARRILLA Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got tha... JENSON BUTTON When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't hav... DAVID MCFADDEN One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't a... MICHAEL SHANNON When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wi... MICHAEL GROSS I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextual... KEN LIU I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi... MARILYN MONROE I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 an... LINDSEY HAUN I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. ... NOAH BAUMBACH I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to trea... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... ALAN BENNETT I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management... CAROL BARTZ If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had someth... PALMER LUCKEY Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f... REBECCA FERGUSON I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other t... KEN LIU I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then m... AARON PAUL I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I&... ASA BUTTERFIELD I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I... CHARLIE WATTS I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies ... CHRIS BENZ My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age.... ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he... STELLAN SKARSGARD I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... TAVI GEVINSON I don't think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot... TWINKLE KHANNA You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I... DAPHNE GUINNESS I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something... STEVEN SPIELBERG As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd ... KATEE SACKHOFF I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi... KASKADE For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'war... NAOMI WOLF When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl k... SARA RAMIREZ If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do. AISHA HINDS As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a p... JONATHAN STROUD I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c... EMMA STONE
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FIONA APPLE I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not. FIONA APPLE I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in ... FIONA SHAW Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe... FIONA APPLE It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was al... FIONA THRUST I love being aroused. I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being n... FIONA THRUST Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I c... FIONA APPLE And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation. FIONA SHAW I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at... FIONA SHAW I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never d... FIONA APPLE I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're... FIONA APPLE The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. FIONA APPLE [During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking an... FIONA APPLE Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed and I want to crawl in with you but I cry instead FIONA APPLE And I will pretend that I don't know of your sins until you are ready to confess but all... FIONA APPLE I say tell me the truth, but you don«t dare. I tell you how I feel but you donÃ�... FIONA APPLE But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me. FIONA APPLE [Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being laz... FIONA APPLE Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. FIONA APPLE I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup. MELANIE FIONA My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that... MELANIE FIONA I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get,... MELANIE FIONA I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present. MELANIE FIONA Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. FIONA SHAW A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. FIONA SHAW You can get very self-important about it, but the point is it's play. FIONA SHAW The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. FIONA SHAW I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need t... FIONA SHAW The way I look at it is that I am a non-man playing somebody who perceives himself to be a non-man. FIONA SHAW I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerou... FIONA SHAW There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Irelan... FIONA SHAW I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the... FIONA APPLE Home is where my habits have a habitat FIONA APPLE Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who tu... FIONA THRUST Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice. ‘... FIONA THRUST He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, yo... FIONA THRUST I was hot and horny as hell. Which was typical of me. I’m twenty-five, and I’m healthy, an... FIONA THRUST You know, when I see a good-looking man, the first thing I think about is sex. I want to see him nak... FIONA THRUST He looked at me, and then looked away quickly. But I could tell he was interested. <... FIONA THRUST