Amy Adams
Related I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy k... BARRY JENKINS As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick fe... CARL HAGELIN KEITH STANFIELD I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... NANCY MEYERS LEA MICHELE BROCK LESNAR We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our t... JOHN SLADEK If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so ... ALEXIS ARGUELLO BLAKE LIVELY When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu... THOMAS MCDONELL I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ... JESSICA PARE I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I did... MAJ SJOWALL MARLON JAMES When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of the... NATE DIAZ It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physica... CHARLYNE YI I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basical... BERNHARD GOETZ I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn&... SARAH HAY I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I ... BILLY ECKSTINE I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne... MANISH DAYAL TONY DANZA DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out.... AL JOURGENSEN I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step... PATTIE BOYD When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI MICHAEL J. FOX DAVID O. RUSSELL THOMAS MCGUANE JIMMY FALLON JESSE BALL RICHARD CARMONA EMINEM At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeli... ZACHARY KNIGHTON I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't... PEGGY LIPTON When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of hi... ALEX RODRIGUEZ ADAM DRIVER ASTRO CHELSEA CLINTON EVE ARNOLD DONNA BRAZILE ANNIE BESANT My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ... ALEXANDER CHEE ELLEN DEGENERES NATE ROBINSON With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make... BELLAMY YOUNG I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F... PETER FONDA I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'... DAMON LINDELOF ANTHONY HOPKINS I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girl... JOSH BROLIN Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel ... KRISTIN CAST I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 year... KAREN ABBOTT LEONORA CARRINGTON NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON JULIAN CLARY JUNOT DIAZ SHANNON LUCID When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY ARI GRAYNOR TAYLOR SWIFT MATT BOMER There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid&#... DALEY THOMPSON LILY COLLINS JIMMI SIMPSON KEVYN AUCOIN I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav... TITUSS BURGESS VICTORIA MORAN LARRY ELDER CHRISTIAN BALE I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, ... OM PURI I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ... JOSEPH MAWLE With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn&... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.... MEGHAN TRAINOR ALESSIA CARA I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF GERRY COONEY ERIC DAVIS In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the... AYUMI HAMASAKI I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostraciz... BARRY JENKINS I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven o... IMELDA MAY I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren&... DACRE MONTGOMERY I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally di... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE CANDICE BERGEN I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now... BEN MCKENZIE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ... HANNAH WARE CARROLL SHELBY I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I c... LASSE HALLSTROM KANYE WEST I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the ... CHARLIE MCDERMOTT PARKER POSEY LISA LOEB My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum... MAMIE GUMMER It was pretty tough. I had no one to practice with, and it was just Coach beating up on me. I was th... KYLE ZIGELSKY JULIANNA MARGULIES I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged sev... ERIN O'CONNOR PETE CARROLL
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