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ELIJAH KELLEY I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in col...
LILY RABE For years, people kept saying to me, 'You have such a big voice, you should go into theater.' I was ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't devel...
DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that wa...
AMANDA LINDHOUT I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked f...
CURT SCHILLING
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade... BILL COSBY The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.
BETTY GILPIN
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high schoo...
GREG GRUNBERG
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... JOHN MAYER He had just graduated from college in January. We were thinking everything was going to be stable. W...
AMY SMITH I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own...
JESSICA SEINFELD When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was ...
DOUG E. FRESH There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go wit...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discover... JEREMY IRONS
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided... ELIZABETH BERKLEY I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I coul...
JOSH DALLAS
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. LUKE FORD I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to...
JAMES STEWART
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience... CHARLIE HUNNAM
The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identificatio... JANET RENO
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had up... JESSIE J
I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into m... G-EAZY I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the art...
SARAH BUTLER After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professio...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON
I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college ... DANA HILL I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to...
JAMES STEWART In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&...
FREDDIE PRINZE Before I decided what field I wanted to go into, I wanted to teach college.
MICHAEL HAINES When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer...
CHANDRA WILSON
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri... CHARLIE PUTH In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now ...
NATALIE MORALES
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ...
TAMARA TUNIE After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra...
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch...
VICTOR CRUZ I was so attentive to my great-grandmother because I wanted to learn everything. I could barely reac...
VANESSA RILEY I had talks with a few teams, but I knew no one was going to give up a first and a third. We decided...
HADLEY ENGELHARD
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav... RAY BRADBURY My big passion is teaching theater, ... I decided I wanted to live in a beautiful area and start a t...
GARY SCHWARTZ In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for t...
NELLIE MCKAY At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high ...
JAMES MCGREEVEY I'm going to go there in two weeks, right after finals. I was going to take a visit, but I decided I...
JAMUAL WARREN Every month, I plan an activity for the young adult age group. For March, I decided to go with the p...
KARISSA MURPHY For the most part it (high school) has been great and I know I'm going to miss my friends. I'm plann...
LACEY SHUMATE By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable...
SIDNEY ALTMAN
I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type reall... TOBIAS JESSO, JR. I had never thought much of Rutgers; I was going to go to Northwestern, Pittsburgh or Wake Forest. M...
RYAN NEILL I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t...
DANE DEHAAN In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as...
JUSTICE SMITH I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin...
HAMILTON E. JAMES All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, an...
DICK CAVETT After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history...
ELIZABETH OLSEN From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I w...
ALEXANDER KOCH Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another respon...
WARREN MOON When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There wer...
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE It's good to think back on all the races and I'm happy with my high school career, but I'm ready to ...
COLIN MURTAGH I have kept a diary,
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So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of ... DUSTIN HOFFMAN
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. RAY BRADBURY
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w... SETH MACFARLANE
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS High school was OK, I guess. I plan to go to college and then, well, look for a job.
MARK WELLS I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju...
LA'PORSHA RENAE They were actually going to hit on the field, but now they'll go down and hit in the cage, ... [Gene...
TERRY FRANCONA I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alab...
SELA WARD
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a ... DANA CARVEY I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with ...
MASI OKA
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I... JENN PROSKE I always thought that if Steve went on to play college basketball, I'd be done. I'd like to have the...
BILL MCNEES High-school tennis, it was fun, ... but I got more into USTA tournaments because that's what college...
JEFF HAMMOND
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business fo... BLAIR UNDERWOOD I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little ro...
GARRY HYNES I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I...
ROBERT EVANS My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three ...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on... KRISTIN GORE We have some kids who want to use this high school season and the Legion baseball as a springboard f...
WADE MACKEY I take my son with me all of the time- I have a really good nanny, so they go with me to the trailer...
ALLY WALKER There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite...
RAINN WILSON I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doi...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night perfo... MIKE NICHOLS But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which ...
DANIEL J. EVANS I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pu...
TIKA SUMPTER I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically ...
AJAY MEHTA The first half, I thought they were going to get to me. I had to play my game. I had to step it up f...
LUIS HERNANDEZ I have a ton of community service done. Besides it being a requirement for high school and college, ...
KRISTEN BLAHA In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try differ...
CAITY LOTZ
I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him ... YOGI BERRA It makes it all worthwhile. It makes everything we had to go through as a team and everything I had ...
JEROME BETTIS I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I a...
PATRICIA BIRCH
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my frien... SALMAN RUSHDIE
My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig... DAVID A. R. WHITE My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop...
DOUGLASS NORTH Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starche...
CHARLIE SIEM
I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there'... EVELYN ASHFORD
