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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn'... CHRIS HARDWICK I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't...
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CARLY CRAIG I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend wh...
AMBER RILEY
My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways,... RASHIDA JONES
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before ... JAY PHAROAH
In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. The... JACK MCBRAYER 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ...
BARRY MANILOW Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ...
BILL SKARSGARD
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-Amer... TA-NEHISI COATES
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn&... RICKY JAY I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a b...
HELEN SLATER
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lo... KATE MCKINNON
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want... BILL PULLMAN After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and coul...
SCOTT AUKERMAN
When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success ... WILL FERRELL
At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I wen... LILY COLLINS
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... LAURA MVULA
I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much... SHERRI SHEPHERD
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of ... FAY WRAY I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the gender...
ABBI JACOBSON The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ...
SCOTT STAPP I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I...
ASHLEY JENSEN My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I...
CORY HARDRICT
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and...
RICHARD D. ZANUCK
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w... ELLEN DEGENERES I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w...
AZITA GHANIZADA I love the entertainment business. I have a lot of friends in it, but it wasn't my passion. The ...
CASEY WASSERMAN
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I t... STEVEN WRIGHT
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted t... CHRISTINA MILIAN
This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wa... MICHAEL BUBLE
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and se... CLINT EASTWOOD I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one ...
C. THOMAS HOWELL
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... ADAM DEVINE I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY
When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one ... KATE WINSLET I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ...
COLIN FARRELL
I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a da... RITA RUDNER
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of... J. D. SOUTHER
It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by t... CHANCE THE RAPPER Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein...
HEATHER MORRIS I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniserie...
BARRY CORBIN
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE
Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to man... TREVOR NOAH
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guy...
TRACY LAWRENCE I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certain...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t... STELLA MCCARTNEY
I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - G... MARIE WINDSOR
When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr... RAINI RODRIGUEZ My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I...
MARK STRONG
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I w... OWAIN YEOMAN I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I...
LISA LAMPANELLI I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ...
HANNAH WARE
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn'... BILLIE JEAN KING There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ...
KATE MICUCCI My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician b...
MADI DIAZ
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look... GENE SIMMONS In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of...
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL 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 Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part o...
T. J. PERKINS
One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going ... ALFIE ALLEN When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ...
MAHESH BABU Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to co...
ASHLEY JENSEN 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 didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn...
SKYLAR GREY I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama...
MIREILLE ENOS When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get t...
OMAR DORSEY I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there...
DARREN BOYD
Oh, man, you won't hear me talking about the drudgery of making movies. I don't buy any of t... TILDA SWINTON
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ... REBECCA TRAISTER
I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn... ELISHA CUTHBERT When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wante...
CAI GUO-QIANG After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct...
KIM JEE-WOON
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ... KEITH HARING
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying t... BILL BRUFORD
I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use ... ROBERT ENGLUND I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu...
LAINIE KAZAN When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not ... DAVID MORRISSEY At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ...
ED O'BRIEN
I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised... KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want... JOHN COREY WHALEY I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on th...
MILA KUNIS I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want...
RIC OCASEK
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I ... CLAIRE DANES I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I out...
JOANNA GARCIA
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but t... IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got app...
ROGER DEAKINS I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out t...
MICK CORNETT
'The Watch' is first and foremost a comedy, but since I got to shoot the film using elements... AKIVA SCHAFFER
'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it ... ERIC ANDRE
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL 'Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and...
MICHAEL PITT
