Eliza Dushku
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ELIJAH KELLEY Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. SARA PAXTON When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic... DAVID SUCHET After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and... EVAN WILLIAMS I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was ju... VINESSA SHAW CHRISTOPHER LEE I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!' EMILIA CLARKE JAMES FRANCO JULIA STILES I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns an... ZACH GILFORD I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ... CARA BUONO I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1... CHARICE PEMPENGCO BRIE LARSON MATTHEW QUICK I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a ... LORI PETTY After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when th... MICKY DOLENZ In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came... LAURA HARRIER PRIYANKA CHOPRA JESSICA ST. CLAIR STELLA YOUNG I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university ... HUGH DANCY I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough. DAVID ALAN GRIER That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to ... JUSTIN KIRK Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre... STEVEN YEUN I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or ... ETHAN EMBRY I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It w... ZHANG ZIYI I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls ... KATE VOEGELE ANGELA BASSETT I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc... ROGER BART ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO 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 KELSEA BALLERINI ZOOEY DESCHANEL When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th... VICKI LAWRENCE At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci... FINN JONES STEVE CARELL JACK MA I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie ... AARON DOUGLAS LINDSAY LOHAN 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 DAVID A. R. WHITE JERRY DOYLE TONY LA RUSSA I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated.... RYAN STILES JANET RENO I'd love to be on a show like 'ER.' Just watching it is like, 'Phew.' I loved wa... ENRICO COLANTONI MARK WAHLBERG KENDRA WILKINSON I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&... ABBEY CLANCY I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,... JULIAN OVENDEN I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack... ASHLEY TISDALE My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#... BIG SEAN When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have act... DAVID SUCHET MADS MIKKELSEN I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I go... LANCE HENRIKSEN I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade&... MAMIE GUMMER GERARD BUTLER ELLEN BASS I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step... PATTIE BOYD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the... SETH GREEN CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN TATIANA MASLANY I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE JOHN HAWKES ELIZABETH WURTZEL JOHN HURT I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudli... STEPHEN GRAHAM KELLY CLARKSON ADAM SANDLER When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would ca... BRUCE ROBINSON JAMIE ANNE ALLMAN FRED KOREMATSU I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Fes... DANIEL STERN By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor. ALEXIS DENISOF I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I... NICK FRADIANI I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon busi... DON AMECHE When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to... RACHEL BLOOM RANBIR KAPOOR JUNIOR SEAU PAUL THEROUX I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou... KIMBERLEY NIXON I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young. SAOIRSE RONAN JASON BATEMAN I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... 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ELIZA DOOLITTLE I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a... ELIZA COUPE I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do m... ELIZA COUPE I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO sh... ELIZA COUPE I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid '... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I a... ELIZA TAYLOR I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm... ELIZA HAYWOOD I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news.... ELIZA DOOLITTLE My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba... ELIZA DOOLITTLE ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects an... ELIZA COUPE ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time.... ELIZA COUPE ELIZA COOK I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China calle... ELIZA COUPE I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 m... ELIZA DOOLITTLE As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and jus... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I think that the incredible turnout in places like Dallas is just reflective of the deeply felt sens... ELIZA LEIGHTON When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not... ELIZA COUPE When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a li... ELIZA COUPE The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be contro... ELIZA DOOLITTLE ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever. ELIZA LEAMY I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to... ELIZA DOOLITTLE ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK ELIZA COOK I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I&#... ELIZA COUPE I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they... ELIZA COUPE There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. ... ELIZA COUPE I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younge... ELIZA DOOLITTLE When I’m away from you I am lost.ELIZA FREED Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal. ELIZA CREWE From all corners of this country ... we are choosing to speak out in a nationwide movement for immig... ELIZA LEIGHTON There are going to be over 100 rallies on Monday. ELIZA LEIGHTON I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it. ELIZA JOHNSON We are plain people from Tennessee, called here for a little time by a nation's calamity, and I hope... ELIZA JOHNSON Last weekend's meet went really well, but a lot of people weren't running their main events. We sort... ELIZA DAVIS We are excited about how our indoor season went, but we still have a lot more to accomplish in the o... ELIZA DAVIS While the overall picture remains unfortunate, there are bright pockets of hope. In schools where th... ELIZA BYARD As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn i... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun o... ELIZA COUPE Did he bleed?ELIZA VICTORIA I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t... ELIZA COUPE All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me. ELIZA GRANVILLE The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his M... ELIZA HAYWOOD I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I like to wear colourful clothes because they make me feel happy: short-shorts with funky tights and... ELIZA DOOLITTLE When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the l... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be i... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made... ELIZA GUBBINS I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometime... ELIZA COUPE My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because whe... ELIZA COUPE I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal. ELIZA COUPE I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru... ELIZA COUPE TV is the best. I wish that's how life was. ELIZA COUPE I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looke... ELIZA COUPE Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show r... ELIZA COUPE If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that charac... ELIZA COUPE You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is r... ELIZA COUPE I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love shopping. I don't go on crazy 'I'm going shopping' sprees; I shop as I go alo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it. ELIZA DOOLITTLE I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy. ELIZA DOOLITTLE My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free a... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't r... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivat... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the ... ELIZA PARSONS I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly. ELIZA DOOLITTLE By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and ... ELIZA PARSONS Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life retur... ELIZA VICTORIA You said you’d cooperate.”ELIZA CREWE ELIZA ''MOTHER'' STEWART Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever. ELIZA GAYNOR MINDEN This must beSARA ELIZA JOHNSON The human face is the organic seat of beauty. . . . It is the register of value in development, a re... ELIZA WOOD BURHANS FARNHAM [The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who ... ELIZA WOOD BURHANS FARNHAM Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost ... ELIZA WOOD BURHANS FARNHAM
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get ou... 
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... 
I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... 
I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. ... 
Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cous... 
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge... 
It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... 
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas... 
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been... 
When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the... 
We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'... 
I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time... 
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll... 
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h... 
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... 
I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way o... 
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things tha... 
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city'... 
I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-... 
My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig... 
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was k... 
I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t... 
The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identificatio... 
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically... 
All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that... 
I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and... 
I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, an... 
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. 
I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of bel... 
I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had ... 
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high scho... 
I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade C... 
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the ti... 
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted... 
When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say abo... 
I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hol... 
That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an ... 
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is someth... 
I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My bro... 
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get... 
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic... 
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the stre... 
To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about wha... 
I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love... 
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I... 
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the... 
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t... 
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record o... 
Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! 
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost ... 
Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man. 
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, inte... 
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. 
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of me...