I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
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Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.
JOSH HUTCHERSON My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I pu...
SHEMAR MOORE I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - fro...
GARY LINEKER 'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It...
JANE PAULEY People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can ...
JOSH HENDERSON I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
BARRY SLOANE I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually d...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI It's close to Chicago, which is my hometown, so my family can come see me play. I came to a game las...
MARCUS WHITE I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average pers...
THOM TILLIS I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to pl...
HOLLY HUNTER At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-kno...
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau...
WALT MOSSBERG I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
BEAR GRYLLS I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played...
DANIEL SUNJATA I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I w...
AARON PATZER My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running...
MATTHEW PERRY I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I real...
FAYE DUNAWAY I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like m...
RYAN PHILLIPPE I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen prog...
BRIAN POSEHN I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was ...
GEENA DAVIS I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a...
JACOB DEGROM I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic we...
DANIEL BRYAN I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my caree...
RILEY SMITH Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I...
NORM CROSBY There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite...
OLIVIA THIRLBY I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
EVE ARDEN I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
RHYS IFANS I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that tha...
DANIEL WU I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 't...
TOM ELLIS Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being bu...
AKSHAY KUMAR I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ...
ELLEN DEGENERES It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen ...
QANDEEL BALOCH I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting ...
JACKI WEAVER For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
VICTORIA ABRIL I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea...
CHAD LINDBERG EPIX is a big new cable TV channel that I've just started hosting for. I host EPIX News covering...
CARLY STEEL I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. M...
RAHUL KOHLI The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'Th...
CARLTON CUSE I had a Sonoma race where I was disappointed in the result, ... I wanted to make amends for that. Th...
DAN WHELDON One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've eve...
SANDRA CISNEROS Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
ASHTON KUTCHER My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it....
MADDIE ZIEGLER When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like...
ROWAN ATKINSON I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long f...
SOFIA VERGARA I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest s...
SADIE FROST I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.
ROB LOWE I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and...
KEKE PALMER Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phe...
GUY FIERI I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombi...
DAVE FRANCO My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on ...
ROSS MATHEWS Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I...
JAMES MCAVOY I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a tabl...
MA LONG The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties...
TONY BENNETT I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not t...
CHRIS CORNELL I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know...
BARRY LARKIN I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, a...
NEIL GORSUCH For the first time in my career last night, I started thinking more about the [opposing] pitcher tha...
BRIAN COOPER I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid...
TORY LANEZ I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the...
HANNAH KEARNEY With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minu...
JOHN BONHAM You look at me -- I played 17 years and didn't get one. That had a lot to do with how long I played....
WARREN MOON I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area an...
KID ROCK When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it c...
TONY BENNETT I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I ...
ERICH BERGEN I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing wha...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of '...
PAUL REUBENS I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ra...
ALEXANDRA PETRI I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what...
NATALIE ZEA I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
ZACH JOHNSON I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in ...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ...
ESSIE DAVIS I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and b...
PADMA LAKSHMI I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal state...
MARK HAMILL The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
BAR REFAELI If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
MIKE MYERS I talk about any number of things on my Facebook space. Politics. Current events. The writing life. ...
ADAM-TROY CASTRO How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I ...
JOHN ELWAY I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political ...
CHARLOTTE ROSS When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on...
JOSHUA BELL The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinque...
PAUL MAZURSKY I've always felt I had the talent. I've done a lot in my life. I've written, been in ban...
PAUL EENHOORN I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I fe...
LAURA WILKINSON When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different wo...
LANA PARRILLA I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school w...
HANNAH KEARNEY I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always kn...
ALEX WINSTON I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricte...
MARTINA MCBRIDE I've tweeted incessantly about Nintendo and my love for Nintendo for a long time.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN This is definitely the best win in my whole career. It was the best match I ever played. I'm really ...
IVETA BENESOVA Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I've been blessed to have a long career.
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