I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'
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Related I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. CARLY SIMON I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s... FIONA GUBELMANN No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why ... GARETH GATES This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now. BOB NEWHART I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody fro... PETER CAPALDI At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come bac... BILL CALLAHAN My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when ... TOM HOLLAND When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be... TERENCE LEWIS Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then,... MATISYAHU Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammere... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just a... BOB NEWHART I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba... IAN MCSHANE I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t... TONY LA RUSSA If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's... LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor... LORDE Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we'd show ... GLENN DANZIG I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'Y... BREA GRANT When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Mel... KALEY CUOCO It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and n... EOIN COLFER My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ... JACOB DALTON I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it ... ROB MCCLURE I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but b... GRETCHEN CARLSON I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance fo... DULE HILL I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Cha... DARIUS RUCKER I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ... DALLAS ROBERTS I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo... MICHAEL BOND I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter D... GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater i... STEPHEN FURST I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats... PETER USTINOV I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I di... GEORGE SIDNEY I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ... JACK WHITEHALL At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master'... JOSEPH KANON I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to... JAMES STEWART I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was... ED BALLS At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop... KAREN BENDER I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE 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 can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a... REGIS PHILBIN I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. Th... KIM CATTRALL I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to ... NADIA COMANECI When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ... FRANZ WRIGHT I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good d... MATT DAMON I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ... RICHARD K. MORGAN Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeare... NEIL PEART Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people ge... CONOR MAYNARD I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f... TONY KUSHNER When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part h... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own pro... ASHTON KUTCHER When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and n... VICTORIA BECKHAM I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr... JON SCIESZKA When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottl... JORDIN SPARKS When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t... JASON WILES I started wearing wigs when I was younger and had a thyroid disease that made my hair fall out. It w... ANGELA ROBINSON I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal c... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove... RUBY ROSE 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 put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'B... MIKE JUDGE I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. BOBBY ORR I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go... VANESSA FERRARI I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I... JACKI WEAVER I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before... PATRICK MARBER When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie... KENDRICK LAMAR It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, '... OLIVIA WILDE From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted t... PATRICK CAMPBELL Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p... ZOLA JESUS I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with... DEREK JETER When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, '... MARILYN MINTER I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a... GILLIAN JACOBS I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! ... LIAM CUNNINGHAM I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g... ALDEN EHRENREICH When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a l... E. L. KONIGSBURG On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and oper... TAMA JANOWITZ A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some... NICOLA ADAMS When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular abou... TRINNY WOODALL Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c... GARY SINISE I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedu... ESSENCE ATKINS When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dis... YAEL NAIM I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet d... LESLEY ANN WARREN When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write th... STEVE CARELL I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon str... NICK PARK When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it... FRED ARMISEN I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school. ALEXA VEGA Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and the... PETER FALK When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll ... ELIZABETH OLSEN I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd alway... JUAN PABLO DI PACE I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When ... NIGEL REES
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