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AIDAN GILLEN ELLEN DEGENERES JAMES CORDEN AMY TAN MARIO LEMIEUX PAUL THEROUX LEA MICHELE DAVID MORRISSEY 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 When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' b... MADISON DAVENPORT I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled ... ANUSHKA SHARMA STEPHANIE SIGMAN MARCIA GAY HARDEN I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w... AZITA GHANIZADA 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 I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi... DARREN STAR Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one... KEVIN POWERS BILL DIXON I did grow up with Kurt Russell as a Dad, who was a professional baseball player, with all boys. All... KATE HUDSON ELIZABETH WILSON GUY FIERI By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ... ANDREA BARRETT In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&... FREDDIE PRINZE HARRISON FORD GINA RODRIGUEZ E. L. KONIGSBURG I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think a... PATRICK DUFFY I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at... MARK RONSON When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity ... KIM COATES Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox. DAVE ANNABLE I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to ac... DREE HEMINGWAY J. COLE STEVEN WRIGHT As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was go... DANIEL WOODRELL ELLEN DEGENERES MAYER HAWTHORNE BRIT MORIN PHIL KNIGHT KARA WALKER 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 SPIKE LEE KEITH HARING LOUIS C. K. JILLIAN HERVEY I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG JANET RENO I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I ... EDWARD RUSCHA LYDIA DAVIS I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN I coached Bobby in football when he was a seven. I always knew he was going to be a good athlete. DUANE BROWN That experience from my sophomore season will definitely help. When I got up there my sophomore year... BRANDON HERRINGTON I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I ... BRIAN J. WHITE JAMES FRANCO RACHEL DRATCH MARK WAHLBERG WOODY HARRELSON My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT TOM WATSON JOHNNY BENCH JOAN BAEZ The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti... CAMPBELL SCOTT Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongo... BEN RUSSELL DEAN KARNAZES JOYCE MAYNARD DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL play... BENNET OMALU ERIC DAVIS RUSSELL WILSON I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty ro... DICK YORK I was so attentive to my great-grandmother because I wanted to learn everything. I could barely reac... VANESSA RILEY I hope this will be a springboard. We knew we had to stop number seven (D. J. Richardson) and hit hi... RANDY STEVENS CLAIRE DANES My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas... MIKE VOGEL RALPH LAUREN
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