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I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.... PEDRO PASCAL When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what...
TROIAN BELLISARIO
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If ... ALEC BALDWIN
When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to... DOLPH LUNDGREN
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me... IYANLA VANZANT
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ... KEITH HARING 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 took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ...
ED O'NEILL I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne...
MANISH DAYAL Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.
CASEY NICHOLAW
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa... TAVI GEVINSON
I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn'... CAROLINA HERRERA I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
JON FAVREAU
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. NAFISA JOSEPH
I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judg... FRANK ABAGNALE
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle... CYNTHIA VOIGT I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible bos...
CHARLIE DAY I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ...
CASEY NEISTAT I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City...
ERICH BERGEN I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to mo...
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I ...
JESSIE MUELLER
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... BILLIE LOURD Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesth...
DREE HEMINGWAY
In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any ... SONG HYE-KYO I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived ...
DARIN STRAUSS The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ...
BILL SKARSGARD
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... AJAY NAIDU 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 was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so ... OLLY MURS I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat...
KIESZA When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I wa...
ERNIE HUDSON
I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people... BRANDON STANTON We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I...
MARGOT KIDDER My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,...
FRANK SERPICO
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. DANNY STRONG
When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav... BAT FOR LASHES
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't kno... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a...
WATT KEY
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I alw...
MARIA VALVERDE For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking cl...
BECKY LYNCH
When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr... RAINI RODRIGUEZ
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head... CHANG-RAE LEE I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and...
JAMIE WYETH
When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I took off for New York City the day I graduated from college. I weighed 230 pounds and I had $150 i...
MARCIA WALLACE I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I...
ROMEO MILLER My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold med...
BETTY CUTHBERT Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York...
P. DIDDY, PUFF DADDY Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York...
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other plac...
DAVE SITEK I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinna...
WARREN GILES
I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my... ALEC BALDWIN
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER
I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn'... JERRY HALL I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially a...
CAM GIGANDET 'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as th...
TRAVIE MCCOY I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It...
ZOE MCLELLAN
As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home wh... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. JUDD NELSON
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 was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to ...
BERNHARD GOETZ
When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I co... RUDY GIULIANI I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
ADEPERO ODUYE After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already ...
RADHA MITCHELL In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every...
LAURE MANAUDOU
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an ... GENE KELLY I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m...
CHRIS WOOD I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I...
CALLIE THORNE I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this bei...
SHARON KAY PENMAN I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn...
AARON SCHOCK
Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I... BRIT MORIN
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating s... BEN E. KING
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. HARRY MATHEWS
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from Califo... HENRY KRAVIS
At the end of the day, I have to wash my face. I hate going to bed after a long day not washing my f... SELENA GOMEZ
I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ... SISSY SPACEK
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof... TOM WATSON After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon busi...
DON AMECHE I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in...
JESSIE MUELLER After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaki...
SARITA CHOUDHURY When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer...
CHANDRA WILSON Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my rol...
HEATHER DOERKSEN
I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG 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 had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely cha...
MORGAN BRITTANY
In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get heal... DENIS MCDONOUGH
Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city - the most... MONICA JOHNSON I was about 10 yards from the explosion, trying to move people back. I took shrapnel in my left shou...
BOB AHRING I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em...
NOLAN NORTH After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I ...
MAUREEN O'HARA My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and ...
EDIE FALCO
