David Bowie
Related VIRAT KOHLI TAYLOR SWIFT I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue ... OONA CHAPLIN FOREST WHITAKER It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a... TANYA TUCKER FERGIE My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei... P. L. TRAVERS HOWIE MANDEL When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's off... HAMDI ULUKAYA STACY KEACH OWAIN YEOMAN JILLIAN HERVEY TREVOR NOAH SALMA HAYEK In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN YANNI GARY WRIGHT I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on th... BRANDY NORWOOD We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our t... JOHN SLADEK When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presenc... JIMMY WEBB I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ... JESSICA PARE I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a perform... CHRISTIAN COOKE ANTHONY HOPKINS I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them un... MALLORY ORTBERG I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have e... ELLA HENDERSON I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag... PETE BURNS GEORGE LOPEZ At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't... KERRY STOKES I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the contro... JEFF KINNEY PINK BARRY WHITE SHANLEY CASWELL After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br... WALLACE SHAWN I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ... KAROLYN GRIMES HOWIE MANDEL My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to portray them as ... GEORGIA KING During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we ... JOSH YOUNG I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno... BONNIE MCKEE For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st... LAURA HILLENBRAND When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE GARY WRIGHT LEA MICHELE ALESSIA CARA There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d... DAVE LOMBARDO I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadi... BEL POWLEY CARRE OTIS I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. T... CAM I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn'... RANDY NEWMAN AIMEE MANN I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into... WENDI DENG MURDOCH JANET JACKSON OLLY MURS DOUGLAS WILSON I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campu... ADAM RODRIGUEZ MACAULAY CULKIN NATALIE BABBITT I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I... ARIJIT SINGH BLAKE LIVELY In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w... RAEKWON I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through... EMMA BUNTON JENSEN ACKLES BAHMAN GHOBADI At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, be... PER PETTERSON I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'... DYLAN O'BRIEN ALFIE ALLEN DON DELILLO In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ... GARY NUMAN ANITA BAKER LEONARD COHEN I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa... RICHARD MARX I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em... BILL CALLAHAN I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presen... KATE BOSWORTH In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ... DEVON AOKI I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak... ROXANNE MCKEE A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what ... BRYAN ROBSON My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel C... RAFAEL PALMEIRO ERNIE PYLE I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. EDWARD FURLONG JULIUS ERVING In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go th... STEVE GARVEY I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn't want pe... FUTURE J. K. SIMMONS JULIA STILES BOB BEAMON I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on t... LOUIS GARREL VINCE GILL I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat... KIESZA College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. ... CHRIS STAPLETON TRACY LETTS I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostraciz... BARRY JENKINS I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't... PEGGY LIPTON I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&... ERIC AVERY Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein... HEATHER MORRIS SUMMER GLAU GARY SHEFFIELD
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