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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don'... ADAM DRIVER I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably l...
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D. B. SWEENEY When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. ADAM DRIVER
I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school k... BEN SCHNETZER I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had ... JAMIE OLIVER By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ...
ANDREA BARRETT I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea...
CHAD LINDBERG
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involv... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN
I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I wa... AARON PAUL I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,...
JULIAN OVENDEN I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and...
THEO JAMES I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produce...
CHRIS WOOD
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid &poun... IRVINE WELSH
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,... RUPERT GRAVES I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I s...
JANIS IAN When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloo...
BEN NICHOLSON When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'...
FAITH FORD I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ...
SCOTT ADSIT I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays...
ADRIANE LENOX Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high sch...
LUKE ZELLER
I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out ... PAUL DANO
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I f... AVI When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ...
JILLIAN ROSE REED
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pa... JENSEN ACKLES
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman paja... JENSEN ACKLES In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When ...
NIGEL REES
I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doi... JAMES CORDEN To worry about the past will bring devastation in the future.
CASEY ALEXANDER SCHOTT
I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as muc... OMARI HARDWICK
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. I... RICHARD MADDEN I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try t...
DAVID NIVEN
I wasn't particularly strong in the dramatic society, the drama group. I left Manchester Grammar Sch... BEN KINGSLEY I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their sc...
BOJANA NOVAKOVIC I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arres...
JEFF KINNEY I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays l...
GABRIELLA WILDE I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin...
HAMILTON E. JAMES I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I w...
MATT MCGORRY 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in ... HALSTON SAGE
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I stud... LEV GROSSMAN
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and th... CANDACE CAMERON BURE
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'... GWEN STEFANI I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then,...
JOHN MAHONEY When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many yea...
PAUL SPARKS
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high s... MARCIA GAY HARDEN I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I coul...
JOSH DALLAS We're father and son. When I was his age, I did the same things. I got caught for things. I never go...
ED FOX Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I even worked on my first city commission race as a volunteer when I was in high school. My candidat...
JEANNA MASTRODICASA
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou... JOE TORRE I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... WOLE SOYINKA I have always been involved in my school's music program.
MANIKA
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of sm... RICHARD CARMONA
I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always ... CATE BLANCHETT Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the...
FATIMA SANA SHAIKH I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get a...
ODEYA RUSH I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in...
ALLISON WILLIAMS
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll... LEE ATWATER Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.
MARIN HINKLE
I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxe... MAHERSHALA ALI Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c...
GARY SINISE
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer. CANELO ALVAREZ
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern... DALLAS WILLARD When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a ma...
DARNELL JENKINS
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a l... E. L. KONIGSBURG I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 1...
HANK AZARIA
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing d... HARRY SHUM, JR. Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
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One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll... ANGELA BASSETT
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some... MALCOLM MCLAREN
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. BETH HENLEY I was nervous at first, but after the first couple of plays it was like playing a game in high schoo...
MAX STARKS
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high scho... JOSH GAD I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i...
RACHEL TUCKER And then, when I graduated from high school, I already had a couple of Country hits that had dented ...
WANDA JACKSON I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyo...
LESLEY MANVILLE
I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't p... NIA VARDALOS
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every sum... CHRISTOPHER REEVE
I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks lat... BEN KINGSLEY In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulim...
KATIE LOWES
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. BETH HENLEY At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taki...
SASCHA RADETSKY I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got...
ZOE LISTER-JONES
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I've loved reading all my life. 
Get off your butt and join the Marines! 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima... 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. 
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one... 
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ... 
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. 
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... 
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Love is my religion - I could die for it. 
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. 