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I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contempo... SONAM KAPOOR I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso...
MICHAEL KORYTA I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold...
LISA RINNA My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to ...
RICKY SCHRODER It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I did...
MAJ SJOWALL When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ...
ERIC WEDDLE
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 I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself....
RANDY HARRISON I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
YASMINE AL MASRI
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what...
TROIAN BELLISARIO I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite...
KIMBERLEY NIXON
It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptabl... CARLY SIMON
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't kno... SOFIA VERGARA
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ... MARILYN MONROE
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr... BILLY IDOL
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my...
LISA KUDROW
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call... PAMELA ANDERSON
I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... EVA GREEN
I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the per... LINDSEY STIRLING I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.'...
LAURA BENANTI
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b... BABYFACE In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ...
DEVON AOKI I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the w...
SHAHID KAPOOR
I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather ... HARVEY PEKAR 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS
I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom... DAVID LYNCH
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young... HUGH LAURIE
I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress th... HOLLY HUNTER I see it as a compliment to be compared to someone like Sharapova who has won five Slams. She's ...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to m...
CATHERINE TATE My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all...
DREE HEMINGWAY
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn&#... DAVID BOWIE
Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose th... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo...
DYLAN O'BRIEN
Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I... BRIT MORIN I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it ca...
NATHAN KRESS
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn... CHINUA ACHEBE I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had t...
ZIYI ZHANG I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any chall...
SARAH POLLEY Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend ...
ALLISON TOLMAN
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself a... CARL LEWIS
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I w... OWAIN YEOMAN But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physica...
AMANDA BURTON
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I wa... JOAN COLLINS My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl...
RUMER WILLIS My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ...
GRANDMASTER FLASH I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players...
ROGER ANGELL
Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I kne...
MATTHEW NABLE I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a pla...
MARGARITA LEVIEVA
I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of ... NATHAN FIELDER I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a pr...
KELLY BROOK
I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'... LANCE GROSS In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, lik...
NIKKI REED
A lot of the things that happened to me came out of the blue, but I'm exactly the same person no... JAMEELA JAMIL My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to...
DUSTIN YELLIN I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I ha...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne... PAUL THEROUX
I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindere... DAVID BECKHAM
Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I ... ELISABETH SHUE I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the fi...
SKYLAR GREY
I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first al... ELLIE GOULDING Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to ...
CARLA GUGINO
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur... MARGARET ANDERSON
I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was ... VICTORIA BECKHAM One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't a...
MICHAEL SHANNON I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a l...
HUGO WEAVING I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used t...
REBECCA FERGUSON I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It does...
LA'PORSHA RENAE When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE
I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based ... ROSE MCIVER
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting ... MICHELLE PFEIFFER I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if m...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm ... STEPHEN COLBERT I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon'...
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STEPHEN DALDRY
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me ... JUSTIN BIEBER I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'...
TYLER JOSEPH I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th...
YUNJIN KIM For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus... JULIETTE LEWIS
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ... JULIA GLASS
I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. ... SASHA COHEN The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become a...
NIKKI COX I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing ...
SAMIRA WILEY
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL Really, when you look at it, you're not battling the chemo, you're battling yourself the who...
ERIC BERRY
My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn&#... SAFRA A. CATZ
My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew t... CLAIRE DANES I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and ...
BETH GRANT
We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ... JULIA STILES
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school wa... HAROLD PINTER
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but ... BELLA THORNE
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, ... EMRAAN HASHMI
