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I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ANTHONY ANDERSON Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting c...
VING RHAMES I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother ...
D. B. SWEENEY I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That hones... CARLY RAE JEPSEN I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got ...
MERRITT WEVER
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends. CHRISTINA MILIAN I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I w...
CASSIE VENTURA
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C... JILL SCOTT
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Mu... AILYN PEREZ 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'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World Schoo...
ROBERT BATTLE I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you tr...
MARLON WAYANS
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors... ELLEN BARKIN I want to be in the performing arts. This is what I want to do. So this gives me the experience of p...
MAX EHRICH In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go t...
DANIELLE BROOKS
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... STEPHEN COLBERT I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ...
BETTY WHO I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. "I could teach...
NAYANA CURRIMBHOY I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN She has grown so much. There is so much talent in that body that high school gymnastics has brought ...
KAREN KUHLMANN blackmagic on a person http://www.astrodost.com/how-to-do-black-magic-on-a-person blackmagic on a pe...
ASTRODOST She auditioned in ramp modeling, and also read a commercial.
ROXANNE ROGERS She envisioned a place for performing arts and a rich future.
DANA ROBERTS
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri... CHARLIE PUTH My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a...
MARTIN DONOVAN I was working on a job somewhere one day and a girl came and asked me if I knew who would collect th...
FRED SPINK In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. la...
BECKI NEWTON I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kiddin...
ALBERT S. RUDDY
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known ... WYNTON MARSALIS
I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER
For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date ... LAUREN GRAHAM A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with i...
GIULIANA RANCIC I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was...
EDEN SHER
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM
I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY I contacted the mother and she came to the school very irate. At that point she made a threat to blo...
ZICKEYOUS BYRD
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor... LORDE
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ... SCOTT ADKINS
School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but.... AMY ADAMS
I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school. WILL SMITH I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I... JENN PROSKE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I had a nice read on (the putt) and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus,' and knocked it in.
AARON BADDELEY I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, a...
RAINEY QUALLEY I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west L...
BEL POWLEY I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ...
CLAY AIKEN
When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li... FRANK MCCOURT
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have ... EDWARD SNOWDEN I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te...
AUDRA MCDONALD I still want to teach, but I didn't want to miss out on performing.
AMANDA BOWER When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a te...
JUDY GREER
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flip... STEVEN TYLER
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditio... NICOLE KIDMAN In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor...
DANIELLE BROOKS I know what it's like to be bullied. During the first couple of years of high school, I got a bit of...
NIKKI SANDERSON Everybody was talking how this was different from playing in a regular high school game. There was s...
BART EDDINS My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the femal...
ERIN ANDREWS I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assi...
ANDREW CLEMENTS
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN
I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. ... ERIC DAVIS When they had a roast for me a while back, he told this story about how I always jumped on him about...
BILL MERCER
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more convers... MEG CABOT My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a ba...
DANIELLA ALONSO I went to a performing arts school, and we studied musical theater, jazz vocal performance, and they...
ANDRA DAY
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high... CESAR PELLI Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic ...
GEORGE EMIL PALADE I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm lookin...
DEREK HOELLEIN
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I ... CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school nev...
JONATHAN DAVIS She, I think, always kind of exemplified leadership. She was extremely active in high school and ass...
JOAN SUTER She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never...
MARINA DANIELS I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high sc...
JONATHAN DAVIS For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had t...
KYLA PRATT
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.
SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY
I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what ... KATJA MILLAY
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to ch...
CAROL W. GREIDER My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ...
DICK GEPHARDT I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringwo...
RONDA ROUSEY I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I a...
PATRICIA BIRCH By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London....
ADHIR KALYAN One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I th...
JULIE WHITE She was in the (Westerly) High School meet on Friday. She would have won if she wasn't tired from sw...
DENISE GRIFFIN I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I&#...
CHERYL COLE
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ... VIK MUNIZ
I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being... LANCE GROSS I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ...
TAMARA TUNIE I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there...
UZO ADUBA I think it's a great idea. I think we have a lot to show off in this community. We have more high-qu...
CHRISTINE HARRIS They said I was right on the line with the foot that was in, so they called me out. I thought it was...
JASON HAGADONE A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I...
DIANA OSSANA
I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think s... ZOOEY DESCHANEL
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the ne...
HOPE PARTLOW I want people forever to know who he was and by having this facility and items on the wall out there...
JOE GLOWACKI
