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I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I... JENN PROSKE
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like '... MILES TELLER I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. ERIC BOGOSIAN Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongo...
BEN RUSSELL When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy...
CASEY AFFLECK
Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into actin... ERIK ESTRADA I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ...
BETTY WHO
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. BETH HENLEY I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got...
ZOE LISTER-JONES I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high schoo...
GREG GRUNBERG
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. ELLEN BASS I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t...
DANE DEHAAN When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.
RUTINA WESLEY When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing so...
DAN BYRD
My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sister... JULIETTE LEWIS I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ...
SCOTT ADSIT So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ...
JAMES EARL JONES To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into a...
LANGHORNE SLIM
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when... MAYA LIN I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my who...
FRANK GRILLO It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I...
EVAN PETERS
I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making. LOGAN LERMAN my goal for high school was to make mascot and i got it by practiceing my skit for hours i would not...
DALLY SALAD When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in ...
CHALEY ROSE I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me t...
SAMUEL WITWER
When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got ... STERLING K. BROWN
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ... MALLORY JANSEN When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m...
RUFUS SEWELL I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
OSCAR ROBERTSON
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obe... IGGY POP I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet ...
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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... DAVID CASSIDY I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then in...
JOE PISCOPO
An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while st... BIPASHA BASU I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
RAINN WILSON I think it was appealing to the high school people back then to build a high school a lot like a mid...
BOB LINDAHL I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t...
HUGH GRANT
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act... MICHAEL J. FOX My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We...
MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri... CHARLIE PUTH
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that requi... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are... ADAM MCKAY
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I d... DANIEL GOLDSTEIN
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a... GILLIAN JACOBS I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom...
SKYLAR ASTIN
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confir... MIKE BIRBIGLIA The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
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It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. BLYTHE DANNER When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ...
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I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing d... HARRY SHUM, JR.
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ... JIM BROWN
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... ADAM BEACH
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school... BILL HADER Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still ...
ED CLARK I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
DAN BYRD
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involv... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.
DYLAN O'BRIEN I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City...
ERICH BERGEN I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I u...
NATHAN FILLION
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons GEORGE CARLIN My grandparents actually, whenever they got the chance, took me to Broadway, but that started when I...
SHANICE WILLIAMS
It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black m... ISSA RAE As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when...
JOHN MULANEY I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high...
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I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL&#... MINDY KALING I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canad...
SARA CANNING
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. RACHEL DRATCH
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in music... BEBE REXHA My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was hor...
ZACHARY LEVI I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while i...
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, ...
GIULIANA RANCIC I'm ready for (today). My whole goal has been to leave my mark on Manatee High School wrestling. I'm...
BRENDAN FLANAGAN I hit him with one of my moves I was known for in high school, a head lock. Once I got him in the po...
BRENT JONES
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say... BO BURNHAM
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get... PAUL THEROUX
When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own ... LUKE EVANS That, and my first real serious boyfriend, kind of ended my high school running career. That was pre...
LYNN LAFREE I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
VICTORIA PRATT High school was OK, I guess. I plan to go to college and then, well, look for a job.
MARK WELLS
In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It w... ALESSIA CARA All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ...
MIKE D
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish... BRANDON SANDERSON I was a high school basketball player and high jumper, so I thought I could help. Basketball was the...
ART BJORK I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. ...
JEFF FISHER
I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school. NICK FROST Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it an...
LUKE BUDA
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted... KELLY CLARKSON I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never...
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My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU It's got to be a dual thrust. Increase the college-going rate right out of high school and outreach ...
LINDA JOHNSRUD I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc...
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I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g... JONAH HILL
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