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Related Every seat on that bus was piled high with bags of school supplies - people were unbelievably genero... CINDY HANSON I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always ... DON RICKLES When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ... JILLIAN ROSE REED My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing... AML AMEEN I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involv... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school. BEAU BRIDGES I read his books back in high school and through college. I just always thought he was a fascinating... DAVID HOUSTON Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the st... FRANCINE PASCAL My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. IAN HARDING Everyone was always asking me questions because I was so tall. Buying clothes was the hardest part. ... JASON BENNETT Watching everybody play and me not being able to was the hardest part. Wondering if I had gone (to a... GEOFF PARKER I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping ... JULIANNA MARGULIES Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car. LISA KLEYPAS Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other ba... YOENIS CESPEDES I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi... PETE DAVIDSON When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem. YOUNG THUG I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a... KEVIN SPACEY The car thing was rough. When the car broke down and we had to spend that money, I think, psychologi... HEATHER DEXTER Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I ro... RAMON RODRIGUEZ When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I wa... MARK WARNER To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. T... SARAH DESSEN Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always ... CATE BLANCHETT I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. CAROL BURNETT My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I ... COCO AUSTIN My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ... SCOTT EASTWOOD The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG Whom do you feel sorrier for: the cast of 'Boat Trip' or their children? Remember, kids can ... ELVIS MITCHELL When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so... BEN SCHWARTZ I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never ... BHARATI MUKHERJEE 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 love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ... ROBERT KNEPPER When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S... FLEA I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got... GRANT SHOW In high school we didn't really throw the ball around. When I heard the type of offense he was talki... CHARLES SHARON I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tend... PETER HOLLINGWORTH English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in... IAN HARDING When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my ... DANIEL ALARCON The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell... REBECCA MCNUTT Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I... BERNHARD SCHLINK I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student l... CHRISTINE O'DONNELL The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being ... CHARLIE SIMPSON In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par... POPPY Z. BRITE In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a... DAVID SPADE I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. OSCAR ROBERTSON Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail. MARILYN VOS SAVANT I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school cho... BRONAGH GALLAGHER I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I a... PATRICIA BIRCH I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I ... SUZANNE SOMERS I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ... CARA BUONO I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful gir... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like ... JAMES PATTERSON In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of l... ASHTON EATON In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at ... KATHLEEN HANNA 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 When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and whe... ALFRED MOLINA When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li... FRANK MCCOURT When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high ... SCOTTIE PIPPEN I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying ... SCHOOLBOY Q I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to ra... CRAIG T. NELSON One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition ... AASIF MANDVI I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high sch... RAY HARRYHAUSEN I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It... ZOE MCLELLAN I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter ... GUILLERMO DIAZ When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was su... CARLTON MELLICK III I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. ... DANNY PUDI When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacin... JOHN SLATTERY I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ... TAMARA TUNIE When I was in high school I had two favorite subjects, lunch and recess. ALBERT EINSTEIN I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restauran... MONTE IRVIN I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remembe... JOHN BARROWMAN They said it could get to about the size of a school bus ... when Iowa was under water. I just thoug... AARON LAST By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' b... AJA NAOMI KING When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student. HALSEY Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a cou... JAMES DOOHAN When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program... REBECCA MCNUTT I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. A... ASHTON KUTCHER It's a big accomplishment. I didn't realize I had reached it already. It was a very similar moment t... KEAUNA VINSON When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that ... JAMES WOODS I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition ove... NICK KROLL When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. ABBI JACOBSON When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se... FLORENCE HENDERSON I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. LEVON HELM I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand doll... NOLAN RYAN When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good... ABBI JACOBSON I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental sch... MARK SPITZ I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing... ALEXIS OHANIAN In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York.... ZACH MCGOWAN It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going ... LEE ANN WOMACK I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My fat... JOHN C. REILLY When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. VICTORIA PRATT When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in... AMY LEE Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out ... MADISON DAVENPORT I would probably end up going back to school and getting my degree. Maybe I would get a job coaching... CORKY MILLER I was in L.A. having dinner with a guy I'd known in high school, JASON RITTER I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends... JONAH HILL When I was in elementary school, I'd see Nate on stage in high school. I always wanted to do a show ... JUSTIN BEGLE High school was OK, I guess. I plan to go to college and then, well, look for a job. MARK WELLS
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