LZ Granderson
Related When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY CHARLES SCHWAB ROBIN WILLIAMS My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye... DAMON WAYANS, JR. I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn... AARON SCHOCK When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was t... ANDRE RIEU 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ... LARENZ TATE DAVID CASSIDY ESAI MORALES There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time. HAILE GEBRSELASSIE RICK WAKEMAN Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I ... JESSIE MUELLER AYELET WALDMAN On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it w... JEFF KINNEY DAVID ROCKEFELLER The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g... ADEPERO ODUYE Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ... JEFF AMENT I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't ... LATANYA RICHARDSON My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w... AZITA GHANIZADA I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ... KAROLYN GRIMES My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it ... 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LARENZ TATE SPIKE LEE I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what... TROIAN BELLISARIO Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing. BENNETT MILLER KEVYN AUCOIN MARY J. BLIGE WILL FERRELL BILL COSBY JACKIE CHAN I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a... ELLEN DATLOW I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people wou... JOSEPH WAMBAUGH JHUMPA LAHIRI VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN JANET JACKSON I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind. KIESZA WHIT STILLMAN HOWARD SCHULTZ When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't... P. C. CAST KEVIN HART TOMMY LEE From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI CAROLINA HERRERA I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ... MIKE ROWE OLIVIA HUSSEY I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was... CHARLIE ROSE My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc... ADA YONATH I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20... MISTY COPELAND GAYLE FORMAN RALPH LAUREN I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to... IO TILLETT WRIGHT BONO My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl... OONA CHAPLIN I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinna... WARREN GILES I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my... LACEY CHABERT When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything. MAHESH BABU COLM MEANEY My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did... RUTH RENDELL PRISCILLA PRESLEY I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types... STEPHEN MANGAN JIMMY CARTER SARAH SHAHI DEMETRI MARTIN My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha... ROBERT F. ENGLE PALOMA PICASSO VILLE VALO CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND BRITT EKLAND AL FRANKEN I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a litt... KYM WHITLEY I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the ho... JOHN KATZMAN All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to... JOHNNY MATHIS I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised th... WILLIAM PETERSEN My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN
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