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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t...
DANE DEHAAN![]()
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Ba...
GIA COPPOLA![]()
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my soph...
JOHN HAMBURG I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so muc...
GARRETT CLAYTON![]()
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continue...
LAURA MENNELL For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking cl...
BECKY LYNCH My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.
KYLE ANDERSON I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ...
TAMARA TUNIE So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I s...
JAMES EARL JONES I couldn't go without playing my senior year. It was supposed to be a big year so I could improve my...
JEFF INGRAM My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas...
MIKE VOGEL I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had...
HAILEE STEINFELD In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got dis...
GARRETT NEFF I just wanted to focus on football my senior year and not worry about college as much.
BUCK BURNETTE![]()
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my par...
RYAN REYNOLDS I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost ...
AL ROKER In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seeme...
EBON MOSS-BACHRACH![]()
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo...
ZOE KAZAN I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting...
UZO ADUBA I've always been interested in photography, but I never really got into it until last year after I t...
ANDREW LAPISKA![]()
It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I l...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN![]()
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involv...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school wi...
JULIA GARNER Take all your harder classes in younger years, so your senior year is full of electives.
JENNIFER COX When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I wa...
ERNIE HUDSON![]()
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I gue...
QUEEN LATIFAH It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio...
BRITTANY RAYBURN I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i...
GABY HOFFMANN My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe...
DANIEL LEVINE I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal...
JOE RANDA![]()
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ...
BILLIE LOURD I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, an...
FIONA GUBELMANN![]()
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I n...
JOSH RADNOR When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on...
JOHN CHO At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds...
ADEPERO ODUYE The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
ADEPERO ODUYE That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
ADEPERO ODUYE I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
ADEPERO ODUYE I think L.A. is beautiful.
ADEPERO ODUYE My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
ADEPERO ODUYE I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
ADEPERO ODUYE I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.
ADEPERO ODUYE My intention is to do more films.
ADEPERO ODUYE My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have fri...
ADEPERO ODUYE You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at ...
ADEPERO ODUYE There are conservative people in all colours in America.
ADEPERO ODUYE I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six pl...
JOHN CORBETT![]()
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school....
TRACY BYRD Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio...
BOB LIVINGSTON![]()
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of elective...
BRENDON URIE I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the ...
WES BROWN![]()
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any...
LEV GROSSMAN I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of class...
ANNE FADIMAN![]()
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I s...
JOE NAMATH As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the come...
BLAKE JENNER![]()
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
HARRY DEAN STANTON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
RAINN WILSON I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.
GREY DELISLE I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN![]()
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak...
ELI BROAD I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thi...
JAMES CAAN![]()
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me t...
SAMUEL WITWER I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
COLLEGE SENIOR I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years st...
GRAEME BASE I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
DAVID ALAN GRIER![]()
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY![]()
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me...
IYANLA VANZANT Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN![]()
In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some cl...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN My junior year was a stepping stone to my senior season. That was my first full season running. I kn...
A.J. ELLISON I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT![]()
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren...
MARA WILSON![]()
I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college.
ERIC ANDRE I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I...
CALLIE THORNE That game hurt a lot. I took it personally. I should have done better than I did. I thought about it...
CHRISTY ALTAMIRANO I wish they taught green screen acting classes.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN I've learned a lot, especially in my two college classes we have. Both are fun classes. Everything i...
AMANDA JOHNSON![]()
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, s...
DANICA MCKELLAR In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad See...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I want stylish, attractive clothing without feeling like I'm dressing like a senior in college.
CATHY COOK I have always loved art and architecture, in fact, that has always been my first love, never acting ...
DWAYNE HICKMAN I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to Cal...
DREW SEELEY When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI![]()
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I lov...
EDMUND PHELPS I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture da...
UZO ADUBA Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever ...
CATERINA MURINO The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
RUBE GOLDBERG![]()
I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i...
TOM WATSON I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
ANA GASTEYER
DANE DEHAAN
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Ba... GIA COPPOLA
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... MOHSIN HAMID I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my soph...
JOHN HAMBURG I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so muc...
GARRETT CLAYTON
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continue... LAURA MENNELL For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking cl...
BECKY LYNCH My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.
KYLE ANDERSON I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ...
TAMARA TUNIE So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I s...
JAMES EARL JONES I couldn't go without playing my senior year. It was supposed to be a big year so I could improve my...
JEFF INGRAM My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas...
MIKE VOGEL I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had...
HAILEE STEINFELD In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got dis...
GARRETT NEFF I just wanted to focus on football my senior year and not worry about college as much.
BUCK BURNETTE
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my par... RYAN REYNOLDS I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost ...
AL ROKER In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seeme...
EBON MOSS-BACHRACH
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo... ZOE KAZAN I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting...
UZO ADUBA I've always been interested in photography, but I never really got into it until last year after I t...
ANDREW LAPISKA
It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I l... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involv... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school wi...
JULIA GARNER Take all your harder classes in younger years, so your senior year is full of electives.
JENNIFER COX When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I wa...
ERNIE HUDSON
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I gue... QUEEN LATIFAH It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio...
BRITTANY RAYBURN I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i...
GABY HOFFMANN My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe...
DANIEL LEVINE I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal...
JOE RANDA
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... BILLIE LOURD I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, an...
FIONA GUBELMANN
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I n... JOSH RADNOR When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on...
JOHN CHO At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds...
ADEPERO ODUYE The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
ADEPERO ODUYE That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
ADEPERO ODUYE I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
ADEPERO ODUYE I think L.A. is beautiful.
ADEPERO ODUYE My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
ADEPERO ODUYE I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
ADEPERO ODUYE I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.
ADEPERO ODUYE My intention is to do more films.
ADEPERO ODUYE My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have fri...
ADEPERO ODUYE You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at ...
ADEPERO ODUYE There are conservative people in all colours in America.
ADEPERO ODUYE I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six pl...
JOHN CORBETT
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started... JEFFREY TAMBOR I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school....
TRACY BYRD Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio...
BOB LIVINGSTON
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of elective... BRENDON URIE I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the ...
WES BROWN
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any... LEV GROSSMAN I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of class...
ANNE FADIMAN
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I s... JOE NAMATH As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the come...
BLAKE JENNER
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college. HARRY DEAN STANTON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
RAINN WILSON I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.
GREY DELISLE I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak... ELI BROAD I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thi...
JAMES CAAN
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser... LARRY DAVID I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me t...
SAMUEL WITWER I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
COLLEGE SENIOR I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years st...
GRAEME BASE I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
DAVID ALAN GRIER
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. BETH HENLEY
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me... IYANLA VANZANT Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN
In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some cl... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN My junior year was a stepping stone to my senior season. That was my first full season running. I kn...
A.J. ELLISON I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON
I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college. ERIC ANDRE I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I...
CALLIE THORNE That game hurt a lot. I took it personally. I should have done better than I did. I thought about it...
CHRISTY ALTAMIRANO I wish they taught green screen acting classes.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN I've learned a lot, especially in my two college classes we have. Both are fun classes. Everything i...
AMANDA JOHNSON
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, s... DANICA MCKELLAR In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad See...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I want stylish, attractive clothing without feeling like I'm dressing like a senior in college.
CATHY COOK I have always loved art and architecture, in fact, that has always been my first love, never acting ...
DWAYNE HICKMAN I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to Cal...
DREW SEELEY When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I lov... EDMUND PHELPS I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture da...
UZO ADUBA Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever ...
CATERINA MURINO The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
RUBE GOLDBERG
I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i... TOM WATSON I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
ANA GASTEYER
