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I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
BROOKE NEVIN When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it w...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I started acting professionally at age 19.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the m...
ALANNA UBACH You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
ALANNA UBACH I love to work.
ALANNA UBACH I act with my gut instincts.
ALANNA UBACH When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
ALANNA UBACH If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you sta...
ALANNA UBACH It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I...
ALANNA UBACH I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'...
ALANNA UBACH I've always wanted to act since I was little.
ALANNA UBACH I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.
ALANNA UBACH I'm a night owl.
ALANNA UBACH My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being smal...
ALANNA UBACH Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
ALANNA UBACH I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievabl...
JIM COLEMAN![]()
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
KURT COBAIN I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim...
FINN WITTROCK![]()
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
KURT COBAIN When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu...
JENNY DOWNHAM![]()
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa...
ZACH GALLIGAN The cast acts professionally although they're not a professional acting group.
SHANNON SAWICKI I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professio...
JACOB ARTIST![]()
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O...
MARLEE MATLIN When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so i...
TOM WILKINSON![]()
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was r...
TOM SELLECK My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potent...
BEN HARDY 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 My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,...
FRANK SERPICO![]()
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
JOHNNY CARSON![]()
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
ANN LANDERS![]()
Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead.
Alanna shook her head....
TAMORA PIERCE I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER![]()
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was...
ROBERT CARLYLE![]()
So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
OLIVER PLATT I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth...
ANTONIA FRASER![]()
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE![]()
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a littl...
BETTY GILPIN![]()
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion t...
CARA DELEVINGNE I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so...
BITSIE TULLOCH![]()
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
RITA MAE BROWN Hands down I would choose acting. I never wanted to model. It was something that kept me going finan...
AMY WEBER![]()
I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
BLAKE MCIVER EWING![]()
When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
TAVI GEVINSON I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
TAIYE SELASI Philip Seymour Hoffman thought he was God's gift to acting, even when he was 18. William H. Macy was...
JANA PERI At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into...
ELENA ROGER I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the N...
EVAN HUNTER 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 From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburg...
MICHAEL MINA![]()
When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
GERRY MULLIGAN While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
CHARLENE TILTON When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know...
CAROLE KING When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall ...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN![]()
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM![]()
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
MAGGIE SMITH![]()
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
DAVID GEST A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was abl...
GERHARD RICHTER![]()
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, whe...
AYELET ZURER I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could ...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, ...
JACK FALAHEE![]()
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I ...
MARA WILSON![]()
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting fir...
LINDSAY LOHAN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN![]()
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN![]()
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
TERI POLO![]()
I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
URSULA ANDRESS I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other when the week began. I can't explain what ha...
BEN CRENSHAW![]()
I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.
JEAN NIDETCH![]()
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!...
TAMORA PIERCE![]()
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
CATHERINE BELL![]()
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more d...
GAVIN ROSSDALE![]()
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i...
JENNA USHKOWITZ When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I beg...
JESSIE MATTHEWS![]()
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
WOODY HARRELSON My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm...
ADAM GOLDBERG I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o...
OTTO PREMINGER I was born to be naive nerd, and i'm happily grateful
RODZIDAH (ELIZABETH)![]()
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.
JAMES TAYLOR![]()
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
WILLIAM SAROYAN![]()
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by ...
HELEN PICCA I was perhaps a bit naive ... There were so many conflicting factions [in the Legislature] that you ...
JIM CAMPBELL Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
RACHEL ROBERTS I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris...
KATHERINE LANGFORD![]()
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride...
ANDREA BOCELLI I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
JOSIE LOREN Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not...
YURI LOWENTHAL![]()
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political p...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
BROOKE NEVIN When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it w...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I started acting professionally at age 19.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the m...
ALANNA UBACH You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
ALANNA UBACH I love to work.
ALANNA UBACH I act with my gut instincts.
ALANNA UBACH When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
ALANNA UBACH If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you sta...
ALANNA UBACH It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I...
ALANNA UBACH I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'...
ALANNA UBACH I've always wanted to act since I was little.
ALANNA UBACH I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.
ALANNA UBACH I'm a night owl.
ALANNA UBACH My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being smal...
ALANNA UBACH Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
ALANNA UBACH I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievabl...
JIM COLEMAN
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. KURT COBAIN I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim...
FINN WITTROCK
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. KURT COBAIN When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu...
JENNY DOWNHAM
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time. TAMORA PIERCE I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa...
ZACH GALLIGAN The cast acts professionally although they're not a professional acting group.
SHANNON SAWICKI I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professio...
JACOB ARTIST
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O... MARLEE MATLIN When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so i...
TOM WILKINSON
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was r... TOM SELLECK My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potent...
BEN HARDY 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 My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,...
FRANK SERPICO
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. JOHNNY CARSON
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous. ANN LANDERS
Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead. Alanna shook her head....
TAMORA PIERCE I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was... ROBERT CARLYLE
So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ... DEYTH BANGER
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t... ELLEN BURSTYN The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
OLIVER PLATT I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth...
ANTONIA FRASER
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started... JEFFREY TAMBOR I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE
My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a littl...
BETTY GILPIN
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion t... CARA DELEVINGNE I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so...
BITSIE TULLOCH
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. RITA MAE BROWN Hands down I would choose acting. I never wanted to model. It was something that kept me going finan...
AMY WEBER
I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six. BLAKE MCIVER EWING
When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s... TAVI GEVINSON I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
TAIYE SELASI Philip Seymour Hoffman thought he was God's gift to acting, even when he was 18. William H. Macy was...
JANA PERI At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into...
ELENA ROGER I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the N...
EVAN HUNTER 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 From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburg...
MICHAEL MINA
When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. CARLOS SLIM When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
GERRY MULLIGAN While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
CHARLENE TILTON When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know...
CAROLE KING When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall ...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. CARLOS SLIM
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting. MAGGIE SMITH
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference. DAVID GEST A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was abl...
GERHARD RICHTER
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, whe... AYELET ZURER I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could ...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, ...
JACK FALAHEE
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I ... MARA WILSON
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting fir... LINDSAY LOHAN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. ERIC BOGOSIAN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting. TERI POLO
I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
URSULA ANDRESS I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other when the week began. I can't explain what ha...
BEN CRENSHAW
I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby. JEAN NIDETCH
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!... TAMORA PIERCE
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that. CATHERINE BELL
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more d... GAVIN ROSSDALE
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... JENNA USHKOWITZ When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I beg...
JESSIE MATTHEWS
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting. WOODY HARRELSON My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm...
ADAM GOLDBERG I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o...
OTTO PREMINGER I was born to be naive nerd, and i'm happily grateful
RODZIDAH (ELIZABETH)
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar. JAMES TAYLOR
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. WILLIAM SAROYAN
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by ...
HELEN PICCA I was perhaps a bit naive ... There were so many conflicting factions [in the Legislature] that you ...
JIM CAMPBELL Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
RACHEL ROBERTS I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris...
KATHERINE LANGFORD
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride... ANDREA BOCELLI I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
JOSIE LOREN Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not...
YURI LOWENTHAL
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political p... JOSEPH BRODSKY
