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DAVE FINKEL But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used...
AL KALINE I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it becaus...
RUTH WARRICK I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the per...
GEORGE BEST I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just c...
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For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I&#...
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I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that w...
BRAD PITT I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.
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DAVID LAMBERT I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they could...
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When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the land...
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I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t...
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be...
MADONNA CICCONE![]()
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When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a...
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All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was...
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I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I...
BEVERLY SILLS![]()
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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time avail...
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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NORM MACDONALD![]()
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona...
TIKA SUMPTER Once I finished writing the script, I couldn't find my Pandi. It was actually little difficult t...
DHANUSH![]()
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE![]()
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES![]()
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that w...
ADAM ANT![]()
Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
LINDA LAVIN We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much unders...
VAL MCDERMID![]()
During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I coul...
ANDIE MACDOWELL![]()
I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ...
JACKIE DESHANNON I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m...
HARMONY KORINE I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke...
THEO JAMES![]()
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w...
FAITH HILL I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to...
DREW DAYWALT![]()
I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I wa...
EMMA WATSON I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,...
T. J. PERKINS I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG![]()
I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn...
ORLANDO BLOOM When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'...
FAITH FORD There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel...
VERONICA CARTWRIGHT![]()
When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately ...
DREW GODDARD All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET It was a happenin' place -- the Ramones lived there, Debbie Harry, Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsburg. ...
CHRIS FRANTZ I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make my...
KAREN GILLAN![]()
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, becau...
TREVOR NUNN When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi...
SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was...
WESLEY SCHULTZ I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo...
BEN GIBBARD![]()
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she w...
PAUL MOONEY![]()
There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ...
TOM HOLLAND![]()
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co...
GEORGE LOPEZ It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w...
MAREN MORRIS When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I ...
PAUL SORVINO When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
PAUL O'GRADY![]()
My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never hap...
HENRY FONDA![]()
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of t...
LAUREN BACALL I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Gue...
MAIKA MONROE If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it w...
RICHARD DONNER![]()
You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shou...
DONATELLA VERSACE![]()
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulativ...
DIANE KRUGER![]()
Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest ...
GARRETT HEDLUND I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re...
KATHY BATES We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was...
DAVID STERN![]()
It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, li...
DIPLO![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER
DAN HARMON I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used...
AL KALINE I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it becaus...
RUTH WARRICK I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the per...
GEORGE BEST I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just c...
DAMON LINDELOF
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I&#... SHANNEN DOHERTY
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that w... BRAD PITT I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.
BEBE WINANS When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definite...
DAVID LAMBERT I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they could...
RANDY CASTILLO
When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the land... WILL FERRELL
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER
My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance. EARL CAMPBELL I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA
'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. ...
SUSAN BARKER
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be... MADONNA CICCONE
There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my lif... MATTHEW PERRY
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a... LENA DUNHAM
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It ... KAREN ARMSTRONG I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to y...
ANTOINE FUQUA I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wonderi...
BECKY LYNCH I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that...
PORTIA DE ROSSI
'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from M... BOBBY FLAY
My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was ... ALEXA CHUNG
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ... ELLEN BURSTYN
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn&#... AUDREY HEPBURN Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just some...
LORRIE FAIR They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hi...
FREDDIE FREEMAN
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was... LUCAS TILL
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I... BEVERLY SILLS
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was... GLORIA VANDERBILT
I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just... CHERRY JONES There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because...
BARRY MCGUIRE
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t... KATE THOMPSON It's crazy. I couldn't believe it going from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men.' I was ...
BEN HARDY By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Ch...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time avail... SIMON SINEK
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. TED LANGE There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY
As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it... REGGIE WATTS
'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was ju... CARRIE PRESTON I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
DREW ROY When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg ...
DAN O'BRIEN I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a ...
NORM MACDONALD
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona...
TIKA SUMPTER Once I finished writing the script, I couldn't find my Pandi. It was actually little difficult t...
DHANUSH
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict... GRACE JONES
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that w... ADAM ANT
Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
LINDA LAVIN We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much unders...
VAL MCDERMID
During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I coul... ANDIE MACDOWELL
I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. NAOMI CAMPBELL No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ...
JACKIE DESHANNON I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m...
HARMONY KORINE I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke...
THEO JAMES
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to...
DREW DAYWALT
I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I wa... EMMA WATSON I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,...
T. J. PERKINS I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG
I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn... ORLANDO BLOOM When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'...
FAITH FORD There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel...
VERONICA CARTWRIGHT
When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately ... DREW GODDARD All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET It was a happenin' place -- the Ramones lived there, Debbie Harry, Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsburg. ...
CHRIS FRANTZ I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make my...
KAREN GILLAN
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, becau...
TREVOR NUNN When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi...
SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was...
WESLEY SCHULTZ I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo...
BEN GIBBARD
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she w... PAUL MOONEY
There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ... TOM HOLLAND
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co... GEORGE LOPEZ It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w...
MAREN MORRIS When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I ...
PAUL SORVINO When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
PAUL O'GRADY
My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never hap... HENRY FONDA
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of t... LAUREN BACALL I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Gue...
MAIKA MONROE If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it w...
RICHARD DONNER
You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shou... DONATELLA VERSACE
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulativ... DIANE KRUGER
Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest ... GARRETT HEDLUND I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re...
KATHY BATES We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was...
DAVID STERN
It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, li...
DIPLO
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
