Ed Asner
Related I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa... ZACH GALLIGAN BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD JOANNA LUMLEY When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In Amer... BRYAN BROWN DAVID SOUL RITA DOVE I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, ... GIULIANA RANCIC The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti... CAMPBELL SCOTT I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philos... MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY KATIE MCGRATH BRIT MARLING DAPHNE OZ MAGGIE STIEFVATER Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn'... NATASHA LITTLE It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession. BILL FAGERBAKKE It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movi... TERENCE STAMP Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with i... ADAN CANTO DONALD TRUMP I never thought I was good at this. I just liked being able to make something fast and then seeing p... DAVE HENDERSON 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 CHINUA ACHEBE CHARLIE PIERCE I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I&... DEAN JONES The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ... CAMPBELL SCOTT KEVIN MITNICK I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... NANCY MEYERS MARISSA MAYER ALBERT BROOKS SAM WATERSTON BOBBY ORR When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. ... MICHAEL STUHLBARG I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON JOAN DIDION I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc... ROGER BART I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, lik... CALLAN MCAULIFFE When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have act... DAVID SUCHET I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a littl... BETTY GILPIN I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ... BROOKE ADAMS RICK SANTORUM When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; ... PENNY PRITZKER I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE BARNEY FRANK ELLIE GOULDING I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was ju... VINESSA SHAW I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then... JANET EVANOVICH JENNY ECLAIR JOHN KRASINSKI I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the N... EVAN HUNTER I was really interested in acting and thought secretly I could do it but didn't tell anyone. It ... JOE ALWYN I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn&... TY DOLLA SIGN When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER VIN DIESEL Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play u... PETER FACINELLI I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn... AARON SCHOCK I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL MARGOT ROBBIE DON MCLEAN IAN MCKELLEN DAVID BOWIE Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I ... PATRICK J. ADAMS I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn'... EVAN DANDO TANA FRENCH ORLANDO BLOOM BARBARA WALTERS In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went t... MATT TAIBBI My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ... NATASHA LITTLE JIDENNA I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to ac... DREE HEMINGWAY FRANK BRUNO When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew o... JANINE SHEPHERD KINA GRANNIS STEVE-O I guess it hit me in the wrong spot, right in the back of my shoulder. This weekend, I thought I was... ANTONE DEJESUS This is the team that took me when probably no one else was interested. Maybe there were other teams... BRETT HULL I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to ge... RICK BRUNSON I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that so... FORTUNE FEIMSTER I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wonderi... BECKY LYNCH I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT VERONICA ROTH I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you ... MARK ZUPAN When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I wo... BRYAN BROWN OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN CAROL BURNETT I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia d... TROY GARITY STEPHANIE SIGMAN I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soo... TRAVIS BARKER It was love at first site. I thought I should have a bald cat as well. So I got my first Sphinx from... JODI PLISZKA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS DANICA MCKELLAR SAM SHEPARD BENNY GREEN I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a... ELLEN DATLOW Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. GABY HOFFMANN I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th... JENNIFER CONNELLY When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, be... KUMAIL NANJIANI I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I... JONAH LEHRER
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ED MARKEY Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette... ED BRADLEY ED SMITH Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ... ED RENDELL Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. ED TOWNSEND Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead? ED SULLIVAN I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b... ED STOPPARD 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to creat... ED STOPPARD In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in... ED STOPPARD I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want. ED STOPPARD The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian... ED STOPPARD I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and ... ED STOPPARD It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ... ED STOPPARD It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan. ED STOPPARD I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them. ED STOPPARD Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. ED STOPPARD If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent. ED STOPPARD I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. ED STOPPARD I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind... ED STOPPARD The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played ... ED SPELEERS I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can... ED SPELEERS I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi... ED SPELEERS Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic s... ED SPELEERS I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special. ED SPELEERS I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at... ED SPELEERS My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, a... ED SPELEERS I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug... ED SPELEERS I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan... ED SPELEERS I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at. ED SKREIN You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive. ED SKREIN However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it. ED SKREIN I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and... ED SKREIN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un... ED ROYCE The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i... ED ROYCE The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement... ED ROYCE Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou... ED ROYCE A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e... ED ROYCE Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo... ED ROYCE I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and... ED ROYCE The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. ED ROYCE The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th... ED ROYCE I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives. ED ROYCE The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e... ED ROYCE Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin... ED ROYCE The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T... ED ROYCE The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ... ED ROYCE Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will... ED ROYCE I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th... ED ROYCE History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can... ED ROYCE ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS ED ROLLINS While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our ... ED PASTOR Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better. ED PASTOR I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more r... ED PASTOR Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s... ED PASTOR While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ED PASTOR Health care should be affordable for everyone. ED PASTOR Make health care a right, not a privilege. ED PASTOR As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi... ED PASTOR Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. ED PASTOR Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ED PASTOR What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER With every social media, there's hate and things like that. ED OXENBOULD I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily. ED OXENBOULD I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would... ED OXENBOULD I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible... ED OXENBOULD I love working in America! ED OXENBOULD I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,... ED OXENBOULD My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just s... ED OXENBOULD I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls. ED OXENBOULD I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan... ED OXENBOULD Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ... ED OXENBOULD My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do... ED O'NEILL I channel surf like probably most people. ED O'NEILL I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it. ED O'NEILL I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career. ED O'NEILL I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to... ED O'NEILL Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money. ED O'NEILL I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And tha... ED O'NEILL I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very... ED O'NEILL I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ... ED O'NEILL I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ... ED O'NEILL Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there... ED O'NEILL In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve... ED O'NEILL I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g... ED O'NEILL I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie. ED O'NEILL All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested... ED O'NEILL I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I&#... ED O'NEILL That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w... ED O'NEILL When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju... ED O'NEILL There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min... ED O'BRIEN What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som... ED O'BRIEN So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the... ED O'BRIEN For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ... ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali... ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t... ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w... ED O'BRIEN I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a... ED O'BRIEN I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians. ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's... ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s... ED O'BRIEN Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward. ED O'BRIEN There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t... ED O'BRIEN Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'... ED O'BRIEN We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it... ED O'BRIEN Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate. ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. ED O'BRIEN ED MCMAHON ED MCMAHON ED MCMAHON
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