Malin Akerman
Related I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK JAMES FRANCO KENDALL JENNER I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have i... SEAN HAYES I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model. AMANDA SEYFRIED RITA RUDNER I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was somethi... DOUG STANHOPE One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't a... MICHAEL SHANNON KATEE SACKHOFF JACK OSBOURNE MARTIN SCORSESE I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't i... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have th... MARTHA KELLY NICOLE SCHERZINGER CHRIS CRUTCHER DAVID HAREWOOD I just don't get boys; I don't really get men. CHERYL COLE BRYSON TILLER I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually... LA'PORSHA RENAE I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being t... TRACEY GOLD ROBERT PATTINSON I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this... MICHELLE FORBES LUKE BRYAN I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost... RICHIE HAVENS Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like... JORDIN SPARKS MEGAN FOX The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do... STACEY SNIDER I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin... EMILY MORTIMER MALIN AKERMAN I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character... CATHERINE KEENER I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the onl... JON HUERTAS CAMERON DIAZ Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't k... OPHELIA LOVIBOND OWAIN YEOMAN DEMETRI MARTIN LUCAS TILL When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get t... OMAR DORSEY OWAIN YEOMAN HOWIE MANDEL CHARLES KURALT DREW BARRYMORE My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I ... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I did... MAJ SJOWALL AMY TAN KEVIN GATES I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b... KATE BUSH KEVIN HART Growing up, my parents loved Bon Jovi and Boston and Rush and all that, but it wasn't really con... CASSADEE POPE In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w... RAEKWON I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets the... ELIJAH KELLEY Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many pe... DANIEL WU Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein... HEATHER MORRIS I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good ho... LEE PEARSON I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom... DAVID HYDE PIERCE 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 really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to ... HANNAH MURRAY I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ... AMANDA BURTON BOBBY FLAY DEREK JETER People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I... MIKE GORDON I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough,... FELICITY HUFFMAN When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I c... D. A. PENNEBAKER I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still ... SHANE MCANALLY GIL SCOTT-HERON I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage... TRAVIS FIMMEL The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become a... NIKKI COX I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in... TARAN KILLAM NEIL PEART KAREN FINERMAN SIA DOLLY PARTON A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves... CARLY CRAIG I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself. BEN FOSTER Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my bro... NATASCHA MCELHONE It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Ni... CHRISTOPHER DARDEN When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi... SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER KEVYN AUCOIN BO BURNHAM VICTORIA JUSTICE I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a ... ANDERS HOLM CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not b... RACHEL KUSHNER DOMINIC MONAGHAN DIANNA AGRON I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca... ETHAN PECK You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I'v... MIDGE URE I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And peop... BAR PALY BLAKE LIVELY 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 At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the f... EMUN ELLIOTT BETH DITTO STEPHEN COLBERT DAVID BAILEY I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean,... ZELJKO IVANEK I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '... PETRA COLLINS I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting m... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never bee... AL YANKOVIC I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
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