My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
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Related My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls com... HAILEE STEINFELD And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got ... CHELAN SIMMONS I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the... MICHAEL CARBONARO The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w... NORM MACDONALD I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she... CATHERINE MALANDRINO I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not aroun... CHLOE BENNET Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. W... STACEY BENDET Sometimes in golf I've got 10,000 people watching me. Cameras are easy. Doing the Jay Leno show ... MATT KUCHAR When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surr... RODNEY ATKINS I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class. YAYA HAN I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at th... THOMAS F. WILSON The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. ANGIE HARMON A week later, President Bush said his administration's response to Katrina was unacceptable. Then he... JAY LENO It used to be that if you got on 'The Tonight Show,' your career was made. Now, if you'r... MIKE BIRBIGLIA When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it,... NICK KROLL Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. ZOE SALDANA Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of'... TARAN KILLAM I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series... NORA EPHRON I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she... MEGYN KELLY Before that, plastic was a synonym of bad products. From the Middle Ages on, dolls were given infant... CRISTIANE VON First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show air... ZOE MCLELLAN I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up. ALLISON WILLIAMS My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, sp... JESSICA BIEL Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deform... RITA RUDNER I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, an... CAMILLA BELLE We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. BENJAMIN JOWETT We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. SHARON STONE We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. SHARON STONE I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and maki... JESSICA BIEL When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was ... DANIEL BRYAN Girls don't want Barbie dolls - they want Ken. MARK VORTICE I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I ... AASIF MANDVI Today was a lot of fun. It was my first day out and I got to play with a lot of the guys I've been w... JUSTIN MOOSE My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery. KAT DENNINGS Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people. BURT REYNOLDS Jay (Leno) is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people. BURT REYNOLDS The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every w... LUPITA NYONG'O Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i... JAMIE MUIR When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ... SAM CLAFLIN I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it wa... STACEY FARBER My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.... LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ... ELLIOTT GOULD I was into Barbie and designer jeans. CARSON KRESSLEY I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b... HANNIBAL BURESS I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Bar... LUCAS TILL I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this ... SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT 'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part... LAURA OSNES My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was... BETH LITTLEFORD I was big time into Barbie. JENNIFER SKY You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what chi... CATE BLANCHETT It was one of those years where we got off to a good start and had good chemistry all year long. I'm... KIRBY LAW My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for... MICHAEL IAN BLACK I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i... BUZZ OSBORNE In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Joh... JEFF DUNHAM People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. GABY HOFFMANN I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch... DENIS O'HARE I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Numbe... PAUL BUTCHER I still have the letter seating on my desk. I was so excited when I got it because I wanted to be on... LESLIE BROCKMAN Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the s... NENE LEAKES My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ... BAILEY CHASE With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how ... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if ... CARROT TOP I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So ... JOHN GRISHAM Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surr... HIT-BOY As successful as Jay Leno is, Jay Leno hosting the Today' show wouldn't work. BRUCE DUMONT Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls ... ELLEN DATLOW Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck... WENTWORTH MILLER I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was ... BECCA TOBIN I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular storie... MALIK BENDJELLOUL 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci... CARLTON CUSE My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam Count... BARRETT FOA I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand... CURTIS STONE The staggering number (for Mattel) was that US Barbie dipped 30%. MARGARET WHITFIELD My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. TOM WAITS Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream. REEM ACRA I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was s... BIRDY When we first started learning about it, it seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun and not so m... ROBERT JAMES I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I wa... ALEX PETTYFER The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank. ERIN MORAN If I'm feeling like a Barbie girl, I'm gonna throw that blonde wig on. It's just the moo... BLAC CHYNA I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on ... DENIS O'HARE Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr... ROB THOMAS I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ... DALLAS ROBERTS We start off with defense. That creates offense. It's a tough group of kids. We got after it tonight... JEFF BENNETT I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it... CAMILLA BELLE I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure. VICTORIA AZARENKA When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're o... BECKY G The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding ... SAM DONALDSON I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil... MIKE GREENBERG On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. ... GINA CARANO The kids had a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun to watch them. JACKIE RODRIGUES The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really bori... HENRY ROLLINS My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ... QUINN SHEPHARD my goal for high school was to make mascot and i got it by practiceing my skit for hours i would not... DALLY SALAD
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