I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.
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Related My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co... GEOFFREY CANADA I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo... DYLAN O'BRIEN My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. ... CAMILLE GUATY After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents... JOSIE LOREN I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I... ROMEO MILLER I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn'... JESSICA LYNCH I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my ... WILLIE AAMES I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm look... TAYLOR LAUTNER I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come fro... MEGYN KELLY When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll... ANGELA BASSETT My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't ... STEPHEN SONDHEIM In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some ... DIANNA AGRON My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas... MIKE VOGEL My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, Cal... VANESSA MARCIL I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my action... CASEY WASSERMAN When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was... EDEN SHER I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... CARRE OTIS I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a... MAUREEN FORRESTER I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not ... JAMI ATTENBERG I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'... ALAN DERSHOWITZ My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in ... KENDRICK LAMAR My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i... ELOISE MUMFORD I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m... TREVOR ST. JOHN I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from h... DEBBIE MACOMBER I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnin... ALI LIEBEGOTT I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z... ROBIN WILLIAMS Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If tha... ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn ... JOHNNY IUZZINI I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class fa... SURESH RAINA I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work ... JOJO I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the s... CAM GIGANDET From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v... PATTI SMITH I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there. ASTRO It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was tra... ZIYI ZHANG Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i... KARL MALONE I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books... PATRICIA POLACCO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... AJAY NAIDU I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I ... CORY MONTEITH I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv... COLIN FARRELL I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h... MATT GROENING I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high schoo... TOM DOUGLAS I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in ... SAM ROCKWELL When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the ... BRAD PITT If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably woul... EMMITT SMITH I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts ... ELLIE KEMPER I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience... CHARLIE HUNNAM I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base... SHEMAR MOORE I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't ... BRENDAN DOOLING I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe... LAURA SPENCER I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s... SHANICE WILLIAMS At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I wen... LILY COLLINS I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from t... ASHTON SHEPHERD In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandato... EVA LONGORIA I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high s... DAVID LACHAPELLE Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to ... VICTOR ORTIZ I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've... JACK HUSTON I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, ... CAT POWER I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin... HAMILTON E. JAMES I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't... TONY STEWART I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't ... JAMES HETFIELD I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi... LINDA RONSTADT No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out,... ABBEY CLANCY I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-... LINDSAY LOHAN When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would neve... BRUNO TONIOLI I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, ... GIULIANA RANCIC It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only i... TINA FEY When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the litt... JANE GOODALL I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I ... PHILLIPA SOO My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ... NATASHA LITTLE And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I h... MARILYN MINTER Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt w... ALDEN EHRENREICH Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father... VING RHAMES If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my ... FRANK LAMPARD I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so w... DREW BARRYMORE What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be othe... LATOYA JACKSON I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when y... MAGGIE CHEUNG I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come... WHIT STILLMAN That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and th... ALEXIS WRIGHT I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's ... TIFFANY TRUMP I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my ... CHRISTIAN KANE A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good. AUNG SAN SUU KYI Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g... TAYLOR LAUTNER I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, ... BILL GOLDBERG I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a... AYA CASH
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