I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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Related My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember... BIANCA LAWSON Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just th... ROB GRONKOWSKI When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan... ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 pe... NICO ROSBERG I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I spent that whole caution [before the green-checkers] thinking about different scenarios, but I rea... TODD BODINE There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my... WHITNEY CUMMINGS I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy li... CLAIRE TOMALIN When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, l... DANNY BONADUCE Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was c... AL WALSER Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was. And when nobody else gave a damn I... LIL WAYNE I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a ... KATY PERRY When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little d... ADAM WEST I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th... YUNJIN KIM Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chic... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom... TORI AMOS The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpack... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching... STEVEN WRIGHT I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I dro... VINCE VAUGHN I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' maga... ROBERT ENGLUND My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art s... ROGER REES When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went... ZENDAYA I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence o... TERRY PRATCHETT I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunda... JOHN MARSDEN When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way... MICHAEL HAYDEN I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p... GENIE FRANCIS If it weren't for Nokia, I would have thought about calling in sick. There was nobody in the city ye... REN ZAMORA You even drove your own car down if you wanted to. I drove down. I was single and I had a car down t... DICK HOAK I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, a... LAURA MVULA I didn't notice Strahan was gone. But I thought it was strange that when I went around the right sid... BRANDON JACOBS When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was ... NIECY NASH I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting... DAVID MUIR When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing ... TEEMU SELANNE When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out ther... CHRISTOPHER MOORE My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day... ALICE EVE I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited t... LANDON DONOVAN There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ... GEORGE BRETT There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel... VERONICA CARTWRIGHT I think when I first realized that something interesting had happened was probably in 1994. There wa... RAY TOMLINSON I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting... CHARLES THOMSON I was filming 'The Avengers' when I got the call for 'Rush,' so I went from 215 poun... CHRIS HEMSWORTH There was really nobody in house that wanted to take it. And instead of advertising outside I decide... JEFF TALBOTT When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta... PAOLO BACIGALUPI I loved it. It was fun saying hi to people. When someone would ask what I was doing there, I would s... DEBORAH NORVILLE When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt tha... ELIZABETH PENA I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that fee... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I... CRAIG MELLO My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '... MONTE IRVIN I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I ... BIRCH BAYH I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but... RICHARD LINKLATER There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of ... DAVE NAVARRO First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou... CARLOS SLIM I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I firs... JASON WU I didn't want to lose my opportunity on the first shot. I didn't want to kick it out of bounds, so I... MATT CLARK I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w... JEFF LEMIRE I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff... NOAM CHOMSKY I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik... GIL SCOTT-HERON There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I no... MICHAEL STIPE I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the... MATT SMITH When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... MIKE BIRBIGLIA When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi... LACEY CHABERT When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but... ALBERT BROOKS When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed, BUTCH KLEIN I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is sti... SIRIO MACCIONI As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that w... JAMIE FOXX I'm a real geek and fan when it comes to 'Transformers.' I remember being at my first re... KELSEY GRAMMER I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local st... FRANK IERO I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people... BJORK One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. ... CHRIS YOUNG There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. My truck was so loose wh... TODD BODINE My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go... ST. VINCENT I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see ... JACK ELLIOTT They came in with a fastball when it was 2-1 and I was really expecting it. It was something I shoul... DANNY HAMBLIN I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ... HAROLD PRINCE It was like we were destined to win that game. I looked in the stands when I got to the plate after ... MIKE PIAZZA It affected us over several days, and every morning when I opened the mail (e-mail), there would be ... FRANK CULBERTSON When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ... FRANK OCEAN Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest ... GARRETT HEDLUND There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I ... BILL MURRAY I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch... MANU BENNETT When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And ... VINOD KHOSLA When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately ... DREW GODDARD When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,... STELIOS HAJI-IOANNOU I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to... ALAN HOVHANESS When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of... RACHEL KELLER I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciou... TAMRON HALL What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people wou... JOSEPH WAMBAUGH I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gy... PICO IYER I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ... MADHURI DIXIT I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus comm... LAURA DONNELLY Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my bro... NATASCHA MCELHONE I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a lof... LESLIE ODOM, JR. I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always ... BILL CARTWRIGHT Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite su... JOYCE DEWITT On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's righ... SUE MONK KIDD I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that ... JOHN SAYLES My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then t... DICK YORK I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic... GARY OLDMAN
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