Kelly Clarkson
Related Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri... AMANDA SEYFRIED ASHLEY GREENE ELIZA DUSHKU When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said ... ELIJAH KELLEY I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan... EDGAR RAMIREZ SHAILENE WOODLEY FRANK PERDUE I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an en... ELEANOR MONDALE Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's ... PAUL ROBESON GARY CLARK, JR. Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. SARA PAXTON I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'l... DAKOTA GOYO I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. URSULA ANDRESS Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and... KAJAL AGGARWAL NED VIZZINI I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ... RACHEL WARD Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting c... VING RHAMES I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first befor... KEERTHY SURESH BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD JENNA USHKOWITZ My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ... VANESSA MORGAN RUPERT GRAVES I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me t... SAMUEL WITWER LUKE EVANS I knew I wanted to be involved in writing and I was decent in public speaking. But I didn't grow up ... BROOKE BALDWIN I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele... DYLAN BRUCE I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic... DAVID SUCHET I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. RAINN WILSON KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became. RACHEL WARD I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a cou... TAHYNA TOZZI BILLIE LOURD Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we g... RAVEN GOODWIN THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH Hands down I would choose acting. I never wanted to model. It was something that kept me going finan... AMY WEBER AJAY NAIDU When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th... VICKI LAWRENCE When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ... OM PURI I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been... CAPRICE BOURRET I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I... LUPITA NYONG'O My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's ... SABRINA CARPENTER I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon busi... DON AMECHE I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. BRISTOL PALIN When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing so... DAN BYRD HALSTON SAGE I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite... PATRICK DUFFY I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so... BITSIE TULLOCH I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pe... RAVEN-SYMONE Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t... HUGH GRANT KIRSTEN DUNST I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they&... KERRY STOKES I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough. DAVID ALAN GRIER It was a fluke that between Christmas and New Year's of 1945 and 1946, I put my books down, turned o... JAMES DOOHAN ERIC BOGOSIAN When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class. BEAU MIRCHOFF JUSTIN CHATWIN MEGHAN MARKLE I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. ABBY ELLIOTT Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS DANICA MCKELLAR I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, neve... ALAN DALE I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t... DANE DEHAAN HALLE BERRY Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o... DUNCAN JONES HUGH JACKMAN I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my d... RUTH WILSON I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in eve... BEN SCHWARTZ LANCE GROSS When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG BROOKE BURKE CHRISTOPHER LEE When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ... JILLIAN ROSE REED I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it. TAISSA FARMIGA I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was ... AMY WEBER MALLORY JANSEN The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My ... JAVIER BARDEM JOHN MILTON KATY MIXON 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 I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or ... ETHAN EMBRY Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead ... PAUL ARDEN I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc... ROGER BART My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in thea... ARSENIO HALL NICK KROLL When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle... JOSIE BISSETT CARL HONORE SONIA SOTOMAYOR I like to use public speaking as a platform for my faith. BROCK KREITZBURG YARA SHAHIDI I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ... GABRIELLE UNION In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. ILLEANA DOUGLAS I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never... MIRANDA OTTO ALBERT ELLIS When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had... HAILEE STEINFELD
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PATRICIA CLARKSON And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten. PATRICIA CLARKSON I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. PATRICIA CLARKSON You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. PATRICIA CLARKSON I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. PATRICIA CLARKSON It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. PATRICIA CLARKSON I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally. PATRICIA CLARKSON I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director. PATRICIA CLARKSON I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. PATRICIA CLARKSON I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. PATRICIA CLARKSON I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. PATRICIA CLARKSON I have to watch the news or my day is not complete. PATRICIA CLARKSON But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds... PATRICIA CLARKSON See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise. PATRICIA CLARKSON Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? PATRICIA CLARKSON I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. PATRICIA CLARKSON I don't like a lot of rehearsing. PATRICIA CLARKSON Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University. PATRICIA CLARKSON New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. PATRICIA CLARKSON If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride. PATRICIA CLARKSON The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. PATRICIA CLARKSON But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. PATRICIA CLARKSON The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. PATRICIA CLARKSON I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse li... PATRICIA CLARKSON Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever. PATRICIA CLARKSON I'm not sure what exactly the medical people have got planned for him, but I'd imagine he'd play a h... ALASTAIR CLARKSON Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need... ALASTAIR CLARKSON He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's... ALASTAIR CLARKSON It will depend on what the supply is like. There are so many variables. ALASTAIR CLARKSON Their work over the whole game was great, but that third quarter was the difference between the two ... ALASTAIR CLARKSON He hurt his shoulder about six weeks ago and he hasn't played any matches since then, so we thought ... 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ADRIENNE CLARKSON A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-... ADRIENNE CLARKSON At our best, we are in constant search of something beyond, of national dreams and destinies that we... ADRIENNE CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions... THOMAS CLARKSON There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. THOMAS CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dime... PATRICIA CLARKSON It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men w... THOMAS CLARKSON Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious... ADRIENNE CLARKSON We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and pow... THOMAS CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON The Clarkson Cup is something that has evolved in the most wonderful and meaningful way, ADRIENNE CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their ... THOMAS CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten. PATRICIA CLARKSON I really wanted to do this, just as Lord Stanley did, ADRIENNE CLARKSON If I don't play like myself, I don't think I'll put the team in the best position to win. I'm not go... ANTON CLARKSON I really had no clue what was going on. As a transfer from another school [Oregon State], it was bas... ANTON CLARKSON By far it was our most complete game. ANTON CLARKSON Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reas... THOMAS CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON He's bigger than average, and I was overwhelmed. But I didn't really like kissing him, because his l... LUCY CLARKSON It reflects an intense personal, as well as a national, gratitude for what Ukrainian Canadians have ... ADRIENNE CLARKSON And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. Bu... PATRICIA CLARKSON It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefull... PATRICIA CLARKSON And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been drive... PATRICIA CLARKSON We have no illusions about it. The status quo won't hold. We have to go in with new, interesting ide... WAYNE CLARKSON I'm not turning my back on anything, I'm just leaving Ottawa, ADRIENNE CLARKSON Like you, I look forward to a second Alberta century. ADRIENNE CLARKSON I have felt the warmth of your society, the welcome given to anyone who comes to be with you, to sha... ADRIENNE CLARKSON This is a land of soul, this is a land of commitment, and this is our place, ... Lets never forget t... ADRIENNE CLARKSON I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required ... SALLY CLARKSON Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a differe... SALLY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my... SALLY CLARKSON I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need... SALLY CLARKSON You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. PATRICIA CLARKSON God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. MARGARET CLARKSON His wide range of creative, financial and business experience, his commitment to storytelling featur... 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JANET CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON We're realists. We have the comfort of a minister who knows the principal files well. But this is a ... WAYNE CLARKSON Pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics. JANET CLARKSON We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron an... JANET CLARKSON But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That'... PATRICIA CLARKSON Evangelisation is what evangelicals are supposed to do. It is a central element of their religious i... FREDERICK CLARKSON While immigration of large numbers of American evangelicals to Israel might sound appealing to many ... FREDERICK CLARKSON The Israeli government has a long relationship with American evangelicals, ... They have been cultiv... FREDERICK CLARKSON You are part of God’s story on earth,” my parents whispered in our ears, “You can be like Arag... SARAH CLARKSON William's been working here at the Food Center with us for a good many of years, and I know he's bee... GAIL CLARKSON I think we need to give his wife, Opal, a little credit. She's always right in there, his right arm ... GAIL CLARKSON We're secure, we have phones, we have pure water.... We have sewer, we have garbage pickup, we have ... JACKIE CLARKSON The looting is out of control. The French Quarter has been attacked. We're using exhausted, scarce p... JACKIE CLARKSON He stays very calm under fire, and he stays very focused. Through all the demands coming at him from... JACKIE CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON I'd been in South Africa on a modeling job and they'd told me to lose weight. I didn't fancy that so... LUCY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON JEREMY CLARKSON
I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my jun... 
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni... 
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... 
It was quite a shock to my nervous system because I'd never been in a school play or anything and I'... 
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. 
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I ... 
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... 
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... 
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,... 
When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own ... 
I graduated high school, and I did my internship at Dove in their public relations department becaus... 
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... 
After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first wen... 
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... 
I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very ... 
I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've ... 
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. 
I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada... 
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ... 
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a... 
I never intended to make the cross-over from modeling to hosting, let alone acting, but when an incr... 
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting... 
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ... 
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right betwee... 
I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition ove... 
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectat... 
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public ser... 
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a schoo... 
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of p... 
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The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th... 
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The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh... 
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh... 