As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!
Colm Meaney
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HOWARD HODGKIN The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, televis... DAVID SUCHET Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, a... DOUG JONES I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing... LINDSAY LOHAN In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication... ANUPAM KHER I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I d... MATTHEW MACFADYEN In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks a... CURT SCHILLING I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personalit... SOFIA VERGARA I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for... TRACEY EMIN I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing d... HARRY SHUM, JR. Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and... WES ANDERSON When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't... LZ GRANDERSON I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m... TORY LANEZ I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I... CASSIE STEELE I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ... 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GREGORY HARRISON I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r... PAM FERRIS I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.... PEDRO PASCAL I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being w... STORMZY I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitch... GEORGINA CHAPMAN My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... CHRIS CRUTCHER I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got... JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stu... ALAN ARKIN My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when... BETH RIESGRAF I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and b... RUSSELL CROWE I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored. GARY COLEMAN 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 Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisi... JASON ISBELL I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised th... WILLIAM PETERSEN I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades part... WILSON BETHEL I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn... KATHERINE WATERSTON Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than i... BRIAN DENNEHY I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. 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EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real... EVAN PETERS It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided my... CHARLES KIMBROUGH My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong moth... APRIL BLOOMFIELD I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come... WHIT STILLMAN When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enh... KEITH RICHARDS But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, whi... GLENN TIPTON All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying ... DAVID RUBENSTEIN I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film unti... SPIKE LEE I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver... JOHN ABRAHAM I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen... DARREN CRISS 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 just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be go... ERIC AVERY I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can c... AKSHAY KUMAR I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was... GERALDINE BROOKS I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I&... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into ... DENNIS CROWLEY I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the ... SAM ROCKWELL At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho... ALBERTO GONZALES I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't ... NIKI TAYLOR I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc... MATT DE LA PENA Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that... DAVID ANTIN I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get ba... VALORIE CURRY Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high sc... COLIN HANKS I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energ... DOUG E. FRESH What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That i... RANDY QUAID I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing... ALEXANDER GOULD I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do... PETRA COLLINS I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles wer... GEORGE LOPEZ I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my s... CHANNING TATUM Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's rea... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important t... GARETH GATES I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I... BRITTANY SNOW Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I sti... ELIZABETH GILBERT At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affect... MARK HAMILL Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfo... HOLLY MADISON I actually didn't always want to be an actor. JACK KILMER
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