Tom Selleck
Related The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ... CAMPBELL SCOTT The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti... CAMPBELL SCOTT I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. BARRY MANN I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered t... LESLEY NICOL I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to... JAMES STEWART I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to... JAMES STEWART When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on... JOHN CHO My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covere... JESSICA RAINE When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu... JENNY DOWNHAM NAFISA JOSEPH 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 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 was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa... ZACH GALLIGAN I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i... GABY HOFFMANN I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my... MOISES ARIAS I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into. AUTUMN REESER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON I was going to shoot it, but a girl was coming at me. I saw the lane was filled up on the other side... EMILY WHITE When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ... OM PURI The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision. CAITRIONA BALFE LEONARDO DICAPRIO I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa... IAIN DE CAESTECKER I was so naive when I began acting, professionally. ALANNA UBACH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER 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 Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o... DUNCAN JONES JOANNA LUMLEY Philip Seymour Hoffman thought he was God's gift to acting, even when he was 18. William H. Macy was... JANA PERI When they told me it was Israel, I was shocked. The thing that hits me so hard is I hadn't realized ... FRANK DURANT I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR It was all he talked about - his plans for his mission while everyone (his age) was planning to go t... DARLEEN SIMONSEN My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Mia... RAY LIOTTA For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning. JACK KLUGMAN EMILY PROCTER Hands down I would choose acting. I never wanted to model. It was something that kept me going finan... AMY WEBER DUSTIN HOFFMAN Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had t... DANA SPIOTTA I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston. DOUGLAS WOOD I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my fam... EMMA ROBERTS I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was ... ELIZABETH DEBICKI EDWARD NORTON I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was... CASEY AFFLECK Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. GABY HOFFMANN Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a fa... AJAY MEHTA DAVID A. R. WHITE DEONTAY WILDER I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his fri... KATHARINE CORNELL Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri... AMANDA SEYFRIED ROBERT CARLYLE MARK WAHLBERG SERENA WILLIAMS Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. SARA PAXTON FRANCESCA ANNIS KEVIN HART JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ... KAT EDMONSON GASPARD ULLIEL I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body f... DOUG JONES TAVI GEVINSON I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON LORNA LUFT JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL KATHRYN BIGELOW PAIGE VANZANT ADELAIDE KANE I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other s... ANDREA SEIGEL RICHARD GERE I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university ... HUGH DANCY JENNA USHKOWITZ When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a... ANEURIN BARNARD KEITH STANFIELD KIRSTIE ALLEY I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base... SHEMAR MOORE The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or fi... DABNEY COLEMAN CARA DELEVINGNE The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky... EDDIE MARSAN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ... VANESSA MORGAN SALMA HAYEK I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to mo... DANIELLE SCHNEIDER HELENA MATTSSON MARA WILSON Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away. CHARLIE KORSMO I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my ... OLIVIA CULPO MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY MAGGIE SMITH I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another car... AISHWARYA RAI I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting... CASSIE STEELE Some actors signed three-film deals but the money was so crap I was insulted so just signed for one.... ZOE WANAMAKER STEPHANIE SIGMAN 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as ... ZACH MCGOWAN I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris... KATHERINE LANGFORD WOODY HARRELSON I grew up in a different world than everyone else. I didn't know it was unusual for a woman with chi... LISA TANZARELLO 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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