Stephen Chbosky
Related I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever... JAMES MCGREEVEY To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, o... KATEY SAGAL There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d... DAVE LOMBARDO DOLLY PARTON When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS TREVOR NOAH It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON OWAIN YEOMAN HUNTER HAYES 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 TYLER, THE CREATOR I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica... SHANICE WILLIAMS I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't. BAR REFAELI DANA CARVEY When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of o... WYATT RUSSELL I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the ins... CATE CAMPBELL MICHAEL DELL JAMES WAN 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 Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS GERALDINE BROOKS I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soo... TRAVIS BARKER DREW BARRYMORE HUNTER HAYES When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar... FAITH EVANS In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smar... EUGENE LEVY With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make... BELLAMY YOUNG I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started a... AIDAN TURNER HUGH JACKMAN ANNA PAQUIN I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl... KEVIN MCKIDD JERRY REINSDORF B. B. KING PETE SAMPRAS BENNY GREEN GERALDINE BROOKS I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call th... ELLIOT PERLMAN HEIDI KLUM I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI BRUCE BERESFORD I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're i... JOHN NEWCOMBE 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 BRENDON URIE I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don... TIM DEKAY PAULA CREAMER Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted t... JAI COURTNEY I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgi... TONY HALE You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably... PRINCE FIELDER WARREN BUFFETT I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em... BILL CALLAHAN I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was... CHARLIE ROSE VALERIE BERTINELLI I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom wa... ELLE KING All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention wh... CAREY LOWELL LAILA ALI JOHN HAWKES 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 At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You... DAVID R. BROWER We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I go... EMMANUELLE BEART FERGIE I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas... DAVE FINKEL I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a littl... BETTY GILPIN IDINA MENZEL Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got... STACIE ORRICO IGGY AZALEA THE WEEKND DOUG LIMAN I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vi... JENNA DEWAN I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't rea... KELSEY GRAMMER It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?'... LAMAR ODOM I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the... QUENTIN BLAKE KENDALL JENNER I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ... HEATHER DUBROW I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibl... GARY HUME Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gamin... FREDDIE WONG J. D. SOUTHER KEHLANI CHLOE SEVIGNY When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real ... ADAM RODRIGUEZ THOMAS JANE When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?... ALEXANDER CHEE GEORGE A. ROMERO CALVIN JOHNSON BOB BEAMON For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you&#... COBIE SMULDERS 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ... LARENZ TATE I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're ge... MARION BARRY PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN DANIEL RADCLIFFE CLINT EASTWOOD MARY BERRY But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha... DABNEY COLEMAN WILBUR SMITH AIMEE MANN As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE
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