Jeff Cohen
Related DANICA MCKELLAR My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ... CARL WEATHERS When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w... EMILY BERRINGTON I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different fe... CHAD EVERETT I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, an... FIONA GUBELMANN RUPERT GRAVES JENNA USHKOWITZ I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa... VANESSA MORGAN I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. URSULA ANDRESS MALLORY JANSEN I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be ... KATHERINE HEIGL When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers off... AUDREY TAUTOU Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play u... PETER FACINELLI I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I l... PETER JURASIK I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I w... BRIANNA BROWN My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like play... DANIELA RUAH When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being... AUTUMN REESER I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from aroun... MIKE SHINODA YVONNE STRAHOVSKI MICHELLE DOCKERY I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my he... STAN PERKINS When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was d... EDWARD FURLONG I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue ... OONA CHAPLIN MARA WILSON It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing... JAMES COBURN SHRADDHA KAPOOR I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I ... KELLY BROOK I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in eve... BEN SCHWARTZ WOODY HARRELSON When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on... JOHN CHO When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a... ANEURIN BARNARD One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I&#... ANNA POPPLEWELL I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting. BRIAN SPELLMAN I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials... RICKY SCHRODER LAURA MENNELL I chose it because we hadn't done anything like it before. The kids need to experience that kind of ... AMY COLEMAN I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ... NIA LONG Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a... MEGAN PARK MARISA TOMEI Justin was really committed to acting. He was always in shows and hardly ever went out on weekends b... BOB HOPKINS What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first fi... JEREMY DAVIES For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush stro... DOUGLAS HODGE JIMMI SIMPSON I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and... ADRIENNE SHELLY Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a ... BRYAN GREENBERG In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true ... TROIAN BELLISARIO DAISY RIDLEY Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri... AMANDA SEYFRIED CARA DELEVINGNE I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of... NORMAN REEDUS My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,... FRANK SERPICO I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about ... DAVEED DIGGS I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p... EMILY BROWNING LEONARDO DICAPRIO I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to... SCOTT ADSIT I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something rela... RANVEER SINGH HALLE BERRY I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt... MIKE WHITE AJAY NAIDU MICKEY ROURKE GASPARD ULLIEL 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 MICHAEL J. FOX My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#... LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was ju... VINESSA SHAW I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc... ROGER BART People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of ... FAB FIVE FREDDY There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a c... ROBERTO AGUIRE I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it. ADEPERO ODUYE I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventiona... PARMINDER NAGRA I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS DEBI MAZAR 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 I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th... JOAN ARK I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th... JOAN VAN ARK SUKI WATERHOUSE Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t... HUGH GRANT Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this ... ADHIR KALYAN I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborte... CILLIAN MURPHY I was in the stands jumping up and down. Because, from my angle, it looked like he got in. I was che... ANDRE DYSON My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of ... ABIGAIL BRESLIN RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate... DWIGHT HENRY I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... BARBARA ROSENBLAT NICOLAS CAGE NICOLAS CAGE CHRISTINE LAKIN BEAU BRIDGES The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute... HAYLEY KIYOKO My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either wi... KSENIA SOLO BETH HENLEY LEVEN RAMBIN Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH ALDEN EHRENREICH Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD BILLIE LOURD I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i... GABY HOFFMANN The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ... CAMPBELL SCOTT
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they... 
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' ... 
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... 
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ... 
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and m... 
I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself. 
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho... 
I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a... 
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting. 
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continue... 
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the t... 
I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of ... 
I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... 
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion t... 
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, an... 
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting care... 
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... 
I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia figh... 
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. 
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... 
I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,... 
When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what ke... 
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge. 
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen... 
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen... 
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ... 
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that t... 
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. 
When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thir... 
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li... 
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... 
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. 
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t... 
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. 
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I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney. 
I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. Th... 
I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ... 
Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ... 
When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, w... 
Be happy or die. 
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The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ... 
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. 
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. 
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special thing... 
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I... 
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. 
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