We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
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Related I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occup... CALLAN MCAULIFFE For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, mos... RABBIT MARANVILLE A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It... NIALL HORAN I've been doing African dance all my life. NAIMA ADEDAPO I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going ... CHRISTINE LAKIN At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-kno... SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do o... CASSI THOMSON My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' ... ADRIAN PETERSON Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ... LES DAWSON I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance... GELSEY KIRKLAND Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to pu... AUSTIN MAHONE I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because wha... CHERYL TIEGS It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t... LESLIE NIELSEN My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school ski... YARA SHAHIDI I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political ... CHARLOTTE ROSS I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I'... RONDA ROUSEY I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after ... GRACE HIGHTOWER I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough t... YUICHIRO MIURA I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked o... JAMES COSMO I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doin... G-EAZY A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time... AUSTIN MAHONE As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this... BARRY LOPEZ I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've b... JESSICA SIMPSON It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time. BILLY BUTLER I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge fa... ABBEY CLANCY I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making... CHRIS CORNELL In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to ... BRIAN BOSWORTH Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just th... ROB GRONKOWSKI I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I... MIKE HUCKABEE I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've h... DASH MIHOK I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that. GERARD BUTLER I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's ... NATASHA CALIS Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carr... JOHNNY VEGAS I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a politic... JIM TOOMEY I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my bes... LEN GOODMAN Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenev... MISTY COPELAND I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my ... IMOGEN HEAP We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot o... ZACK SNYDER I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and ... LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK I love doing stunts. It's so much fun. ELEANOR TOMLINSON I've been very hands-on with everything I've done since I had my children. And it's just... BRITNEY SPEARS I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthda... BRITTANY SNOW Dancing is something I've been doing for so long that it has become a part of me. Dance is in my hea... JAIMIE KNITTLE I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enou... MAE WHITMAN The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outrag... TIM HETHERINGTON For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pullin... HALEY WEBB I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. Tha... JEFF FOXWORTHY I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like m... RYAN PHILLIPPE Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was wei... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that. MASON COOK There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at o... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying ... MIRANDA HART I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've be... YAYOI KUSAMA Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my... REBECCA BLACK I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's ... LIZA MINNELLI I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town ... BEN VEREEN I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ... PAT OLIPHANT I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh ... MICHAEL KEATON I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing ... JOHN HURT I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I... MARC ALMOND I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and m... BROOKE BURNS I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. ... SONAKSHI SINHA I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off w... DARON MALAKIAN I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, bu... MADDIE ZIEGLER I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes awa... FRANCESCA ANNIS The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Ga... HUGH JACKMAN Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped do... ZELJKO IVANEK I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, ... ALANIS MORISSETTE I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything.... DUFF GOLDMAN I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit lik... CAITY LOTZ We've all tried to bunk our gym session or dance class. A single routine can get monotonous. Tha... DISHA PATANI All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert... RUPERT FRIEND I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my po... GEORGE MURRAY My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm... KEVIN DURANT Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts. ERIC BRISTOW I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-... GRACE SLICK I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it st... CONOR OBERST With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got... M. C. GAINEY I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... ADAM DRIVER I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the... HARRY DEAN STANTON I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turn... CARA DELEVINGNE I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ... MADELINE ZIMA I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encou... JOEL OSTEEN I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. Tha... MARC JACOBS I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an... PAUL MCCARTNEY I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought... RORY KENNEDY Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing. BELINDA STEWART-WILSON I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. JARED DIAMOND I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spittin... DEAN AMBROSE I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me ... IAN ANTHONY DALE Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and sna... DARCEY BUSSELL
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