I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled over so many times for playing 'Les Mis' too loud.
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Related I got my first handgun license when I was 22. MIRANDA LAMBERT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've always got my eye on my deathbed. MARTIN FREEMAN I made it clear when I got here that I was going to be loud about my politics. ASHLEY GOFORTH Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cr... ADRIAN PETERSON I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in... OLIVIA COOKE When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be ... ROSARIO DAWSON I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Ha... JARED HARRIS When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm... EARL CAMPBELL I'm an old guy, so I started out playing 'Pong' with my brothers, and 'Mario Bros.... KEVIN DILLON I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult. CANDACE CAMERON BURE All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was... LUCAS TILL I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am... DONATELLA VERSACE When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very... AMY PURDY I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta ... CAITLIN MORAN I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ... BEAU BRIDGES I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a ... KATY PERRY I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand... CHORD OVERSTREET My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice. AARON BROWN When I got the script for 'Winter Soldier,' I was so excited to see that my character finall... COBIE SMULDERS When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse GEORGE CARLIN I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I... CHORD OVERSTREET I wash my face with Creme de la Mer cleansing foam. I love Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream - it's ... POPPY DELEVINGNE My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc... MICKEY SPILLANE Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches. CLIVE OWEN I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a r... VERONICA LAKE I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop lo... STEPHEN WRIGHT I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I... ELIZA DUSHKU I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ... ELLIOTT GOULD 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 it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1... PATRICIA CORNWELL Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch... DAISY BERKOWITZ Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they ... ISAAC BROCK My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by som... AKON When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and... CHARLIE HUNNAM Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. No... CAITLYN JENNER My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou... DIERKS BENTLEY I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of ... STEVE VALENTINE Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chic... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in m... DREW POMERANZ 'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known fro... EDDIE MURPHY You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out wha... JOHNNY CASH My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. ... JAMES FRANCO (I) Went to St. Paul Lutheran and started playing. I always had a basketball hoop in my room. When I... JAKE PEYMANN When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life ... TUCKER MAX When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freewa... AMY HECKERLING For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald... WARREN G I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over. AARON TVEIT Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th... EDMUND WHITE I was always the frugal kid growing up because I was saving for college. Or I was always that kid th... SHAILENE WOODLEY I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've g... ERNIE ELS I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in ... ANURAG KASHYAP I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove ... IRWIN WINKLER My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knock... SYLVIA EARLE I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about... RED ADAIR When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor... JONATHAN EVISON When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness... JACK OSBOURNE When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat,... JIMMY DEAN My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all to... VIDYA BALAN I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the ne... KIMBERLEY NIXON When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so man... LEE BRICE It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new... AL PACINO I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica... SHANICE WILLIAMS I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we ... MAGNUS CARLSEN I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I n... RITA RUDNER I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I ... CAT POWER How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it mys... JIMMIE JOHNSON My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since. HARMONY KORINE I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I w... KERRY GREENWOOD I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got ... LEV GROSSMAN When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. RITA MAE BROWN I basically got it when I asked them why my player got a (double-yellow) for breaking up a fight, an... JAMES BARNES I've always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, ... JIDENNA I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better ... MADYLIN SWEETEN Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult. CANDACE CAMERON I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, i... EVAN RACHEL WOOD When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months l... DAVID HAREWOOD I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of... ADAM SANDLER My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I a... GEORGIA MAY JAGGER When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her d... ALEXANDRA STODDARD When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m... RUFUS SEWELL I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE When I got on the ice, I was a little stiff. Being outside for four hours (on Friday) wasn't good fo... MICHELLE KWAN I always got my work done before playing. EDWIN MOSES My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but &... ROBBIE COLTRAINE I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need t... AUBREY PLAZA Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ... BEAU BRIDGES I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while i... MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
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