I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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Related I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I u... JOHN BARROWMAN When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a... ANEURIN BARNARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at ... BAILEE MADISON I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know ho... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw... LISA MARIE PRESLEY If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestl... OLIVIA COLMAN I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself ... STEVE MARTIN I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said ... MARK VALLEY My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ... QUINN SHEPHARD I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a moth... WINONA RYDER I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not... PSY How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can'... FATTY ARBUCKLE I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it. LEBRON JAMES When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials. ZACHARY GORDON I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have ... ZOOEY DESCHANEL I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face. EDDIE MARSAN I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly. ACTION BRONSON I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started a... AIDAN TURNER I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about t... VENUS WILLIAMS I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, bu... MADDIE ZIEGLER Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... REBA MCENTIRE I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't kno... SOFIA VERGARA I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our loc... TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to au... BETH RIESGRAF I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my... MOISES ARIAS When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning... EMILE HIRSCH As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when... JOHN MULANEY I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my pas... ROBERT SMITH I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I di... DYLAN O'BRIEN I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else. DYLAN O'BRIEN People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn&... WARIS AHLUWALIA My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect... GIGI HADID I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things... DOUGLAS ADAMS My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to portray them as ... GEORGIA KING When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be a... RICO RODRIGUEZ I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people... TYNE DALY When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting fir... LINDSAY LOHAN You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and... MICHAEL FASSBENDER What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. ... JERRY LEWIS I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven. BRIE LARSON I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, f... FIONA DOURIF Honestly, I can't survive without my MAC gloss, pigment - sometimes MAC powder. But definitely m... LIL' KIM I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I w... ABBY WAMBACH I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s... FIONA GUBELMANN Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so... TAYLOR SCHILLING I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they go... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... LAURA MVULA I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want... SUZI QUATRO My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ... VANESSA MORGAN Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleep... WILL FERRELL I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what t... GEORGIA MAY JAGGER My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratc... JULIA ROBERTS I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ... BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I h... LIL UZI VERT Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori... NATHAN KRESS 'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don... ZULEIKHA ROBINSON I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my ... MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously u... KATE MIDDLETON I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept of... BETTE MIDLER I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with ... IRINA SHAYK There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got... JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER I was just angry at my mom, ... I don't know if it was because they broke up, but I used to argue wi... GREG ODEN I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting ... MICHELLE PFEIFFER When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pre... KEKE PALMER I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'... TYLER JOSEPH On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any can... DERRICK ROSE It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most ot... PATRICK MACNEE I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, e... KUMAIL NANJIANI Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I ... ELISABETH SHUE I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia... EDGAR WRIGHT I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I... CHORD OVERSTREET My mom's a painter, and she used to wear black all the time, and so do I. So I would say a black... ETHAN PECK I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the fi... SKYLAR GREY I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don... WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about th... ZOE MCLELLAN It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the... CALVIN JOHNSON I didn't know that my mom and dad and my sister were sneaking into town, MAURICE EVANS I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ... JAMES DEAN I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m... HARMONY KORINE I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu... HARLAND WILLIAMS I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was so... AMANDA SEYFRIED I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou... SALLY PEARSON When I was little and my mom got mad at me she would always say, "You know you can be replaced". NEIL LECKMAN I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I... WENTWORTH MILLER I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wonderi... BECKY LYNCH My mom really let us do our own thing and play with different trends, and my sister was a little old... CHRISSY TEIGEN I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, an... DARCEY BUSSELL
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JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der... JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an... JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country. JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin... JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le... JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over... JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is... 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TIFFANY MADISON Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a cr... TIFFANY MADISON Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better,... MADISON CAWEIN It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses o... JAMES MADISON Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be... JAMES MADISON Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tresses Paler of hue than the dreams we have lost; ... MADISON CAWEIN When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie... MADISON CAWEIN The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a co... JAMES MADISON As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his r... 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JAMES MADISON If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external... JAMES MADISON Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few su... HOLLY MADISON We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. JAMES MADISON A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to ... JAMES MADISON I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; o... DOLLEY MADISON If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. JAMES MADISON Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises an... JAMES MADISON Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. JAMES MADISON Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... 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JAMES MADISON I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my d... HOLLY MADISON I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Governm... JAMES MADISON In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance JAMES MADISON The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of... JAMES MADISON Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted th... JAMES MADISON The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the r... JAMES MADISON completely and utterly untrue. JAMES MADISON Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and tra... JAMES MADISON I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect w... HOLLY MADISON Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up... JAMES MADISON Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular cu... TIFFANY MADISON The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effo... HOLLY MADISON Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments,... JAMES MADISON No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. JAMES MADISON You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhe... HOLLY MADISON There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more ... JAMES MADISON After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to... HOLLY MADISON Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... Dur... JAMES MADISON Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... JAMES MADISON Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquer... TIFFANY MADISON This is a scary game when a team comes in with nothing to lose and everything to gain. We've got the... TOBY MADISON The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. JAMES MADISON Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence JAMES MADISON Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose... JAMES MADISON Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at t... JAMES MADISON