Mara Wilson
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TREMELL JACK ALY RAISMAN NADIA COMANECI SUMMER GLAU LAURA MENNELL I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I ... EDWARD RUSCHA I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my... DAVID WENHAM The only thing that kept me in school, ... was the art classes. I couldn't get art class anywhere el... CAROL HANSEN ASHLEY MADEKWE ORSON SCOTT CARD ALDEN EHRENREICH Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I... CHANDRA WILSON It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted... MAIKA MONROE Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Gir... RAMI MALEK I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ... LESLIE ODOM, JR. Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, th... TYNE DALY It has classes that will push me toward my career of what i want. And it makes me feel a little easi... DANIELLE BROWN CHRISTIE BRINKLEY It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it. RAIN PHOENIX What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe ... NAOMI WATTS It was a little too lonely for me, ... The (traditional Mexican) music took me to a place that felt ... EUGENE RODRIGUEZ LIL UZI VERT Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma... NAOMI WATTS When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS ANNABETH GISH JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA JULIA STILES PAUL WALKER MERCE CUNNINGHAM I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encou... UZO ADUBA It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake u... BECKY LYNCH I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a dieha... JENNA DEWAN NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess ... A.J. ELLISON DAVID CROSBY AMY ADAMS KERRY WASHINGTON CHANG-RAE LEE 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ... LARRY FOOTE TRACY CHAPMAN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the... 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MISTY COPELAND CAROL LEE CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my s... IMRAN AMED I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 an... LINDSEY HAUN I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was ju... VINESSA SHAW I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ JAMES D. WATSON NICOLAS CAGE CHRISTINA AGUILERA SARAH DESSEN My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally ... ZOEY DEUTCH ADELAIDE KANE When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, ... JAMES EARL JONES It was like a dream. It is a dream that came true. I lived the emotions. I closed my eyes twice to r... CRISTIAN ZORZI ELLIE GOULDING STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think for any player, once you make a couple (shots), your confidence just goes up. And it was the... BRITTANY WINNER One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated fr... ROBERT BROWN And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got ... CHELAN SIMMONS When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that th... JOHN MCGAHERN I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was ... EMILY DESCHANEL
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WELLINGTON MARA You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man. WELLINGTON MARA Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. WELLINGTON MARA These days I'm pretty much a businessman. WELLINGTON MARA Self-justification is a treacherous servant. WELLINGTON MARA Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football. WELLINGTON MARA In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper. WELLINGTON MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA I'm an idiot. KATE MARA I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because i... KATE MARA I've always wanted to do a period piece. KATE MARA I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I w... KATE MARA I don't ever take anything for granted. KATE MARA When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, th... KATE MARA I hated school. KATE MARA I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, ... KATE MARA I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, b... KATE MARA I feel so lucky. KATE MARA I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn&#... KATE MARA I feel like I'm exactly where I should be. KATE MARA I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else. KATE MARA Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in... KATE MARA In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan. KATE MARA Eventually you get bored and you want to work. KATE MARA It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then... KATE MARA I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life. KATE MARA Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way. KATE MARA There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just w... KATE MARA Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring. KATE MARA I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role. KATE MARA All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have h... KATE MARA Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world. KATE MARA Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing. KATE MARA MARA LIASSON MARA LIASSON MARA LIASSON MARA LIASSON KAMISESE MARA MARA LIASSON MARA LIASSON Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a cong... MARA ALTMAN MARA LIASSON I like traditions, and the national anthem is important. KATE MARA Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig. KATE MARA Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was ... ROONEY MARA I'll tell you what you can expect,' he said at our kickoff luncheon just a few days later. 'You can ... JOHN MARA There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy ... ROONEY MARA I'm thrilled to be in the final. It's not a great way to win a match, but I'm so happy to be in my f... MARA SANTANGELO I tried to be aggressive after losing the first set and also concentrated better. I am happy with th... MARA SANTANGELO I wasn't sure of this after losing the first set, but I remained positive. The first-set loss actual... MARA SANTANGELO If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hard... ROONEY MARA My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925, WELLINGTON MARA I don't need one of those, WELLINGTON MARA Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table. WELLINGTON MARA We should all share I guess, ... Or we're going to lose some of the smaller teams down the line, and... WELLINGTON MARA I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it. WELLINGTON MARA Since he took over for Pete Rozelle, we've had unparalleled prosperity, popularity and labor peace. ... JOHN MARA We would have liked to build it yesterday. But we are pretty much on target. BILL MARA You wouldn't even be able to see us from the street. BILL MARA We envision it to be a center for research and life planning that people from all over the state wil... BILL MARA It's never needed vindication. 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MARA WADE They thought that hieroglyphs were a secret language ... that they were ideograms that could more ac... MARA WADE Our diet starts when we are born and it makes sense that what you eat over a lifetime will make a di... MARA VITOLINS The study was testing the belief that lowering total fat would reduce the risk of cancer. Since the ... MARA VITOLINS It's going to be very tough for me. I've never beaten her and she's full of confidence as this is he... MARA SANTANGELO It was a lot tougher than I expected. What proved significant was that I was right there in the cont... MARA SANTANGELO I knew it was going to be a tough match and it was. She is so hard to play against. I know I was up ... MARA SANTANGELO KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA KAMISESE MARA It's a pretty low period right now. We had two fantastic games versus Buffalo and Toronto, and to co... PAUL MARA I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we... MARA BROCK AKIL I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as... MARA BROCK AKIL I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep... MARA BROCK AKIL I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where an... MARA BROCK AKIL Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more i... MARA BROCK AKIL If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's,... MARA BROCK AKIL Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genre... MARA BROCK AKIL A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I ge... MARA BROCK AKIL MARA E. 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RAINN WILSON The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is t... RAINN WILSON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. RAINN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking... RAINN WILSON I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to... RAINN WILSON Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. RAINN WILSON I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. RAINN WILSON I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read b... RAINN WILSON I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm hap... RAINN WILSON
When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I st... 
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and m... 
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... 
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If the constitution goes, I go. 
And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. 
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