When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
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Related When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&... GLORIA STUART I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C... PRINCE ROYCE I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik... JIMMY DEAN I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food ... JIM PARRACK When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attac... ANTON CORBIJN My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remembe... CRISS ANGEL I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som... HARLAND WILLIAMS Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m... KATHARINE GRAHAM I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie ... KENNY WORMALD I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I... STELLA YOUNG I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't... ALAN KING I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art scho... PETE TOWNSHEND When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pict... JOHN VARVATOS Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't supp... ADELE The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my ... TAMMY BLANCHARD When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for orig... JONI MITCHELL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... KRISTEN STEWART I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ... MADHURI DIXIT I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the mome... KEVIN SMITH It's music. 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HARRY KANE I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th... MARK RUFFALO When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voic... THERESA REBECK When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If t... AL ROKER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love L... RANDALL PARK It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was c... GUILLERMO DEL TORO I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if... PETER GALLAGHER There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I ... JARED PADALECKI When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff an... NICKI MINAJ When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm goi... NOEL GALLAGHER 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso... MICHAEL KORYTA I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 7... JOHNNY BENCH George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ... STEVEN WRIGHT And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, ... BUSY PHILIPPS First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought... FRANK PERETTI On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it w... JEFF KINNEY It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b... RICHARD GERE I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I ... RACHAEL RAY When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt tha... ELIZABETH PENA I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK 'Empire' was already given its green light. I was like, 'Alright, this makes perfect sen... ROTIMI I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they... FRANCESCA ANNIS I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.... AYELET ZURER My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b... GABBY DOUGLAS When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I g... HUNTER HAYES I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... BEN SCHNETZER And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'... J. COLE I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1... CHARICE PEMPENGCO If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd lov... BETSY BRANDT 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I p... JEREMIH I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on mu... LUKE EVANS Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and... NORTON JUSTER There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th... TABATHA COFFEY I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and g... ZARA LARSSON I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi... KASKADE I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge.... BONNIE BEDELIA I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's ... NATASHA CALIS There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass... RYAN GUZMAN Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I... GRANDMASTER FLASH When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business ... ICE CUBE I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it wa... DAMIAN LEWIS The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't,... JAMES CORDEN I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I firs... JASON WU I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wo... ADAM JOHNSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w... ELLEN DEGENERES When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ... SAM CLAFLIN The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband... DAWN STEEL
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