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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE![]()
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did e...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX![]()
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be...
JEFF BUCKLEY Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my ...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS![]()
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then...
TOM DRURY When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK![]()
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. STINE My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ...
SCOTT EASTWOOD I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.
BRYCE HARPER I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT![]()
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but...
JEFF BUCKLEY![]()
I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.
GILLIAN FLYNN I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
CARLOS PENA, JR. I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
YOUNG BUCK When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
FACUNDO PIERES When I hurt my back, I'd never felt anything like that before. Obviously, it was pretty scary.
MARCO RIVERA![]()
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave m...
HELEN REDDY![]()
I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
SIA![]()
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT![]()
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit ...
DUFFY![]()
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
DAMON WAYANS I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so ...
CONOR JACKSON![]()
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.
TRAVIS SCOTT I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for a...
BIRDY I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13...
ANEURIN BARNARD My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN![]()
Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us...
TRE COOL![]()
I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cros...
BILL PLYMPTON I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
HARMONY KORINE I think I was 13 when we had the talk. My dad is in law enforcement and I know I'm not going to use,...
KYLE MONAHAN I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON![]()
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a...
TOBY KEITH I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL![]()
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I w...
YANI TSENG I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN I was shaking pretty bad. My 'shaking meter' usually tells my guys [crew] how good I run. When I cam...
ELLIOTT SADLER I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
LARA STONE My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to...
PATRICK MURPHY![]()
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second on...
KATEE SACKHOFF Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym ...
JANUARY JONES![]()
My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO![]()
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
JEB BUSH I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON![]()
I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT![]()
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER![]()
I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT![]()
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I started out with a tank when I was in seventh grade. I was 12 or 13. I have 20 tanks now and two p...
BILL SANDERS![]()
When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pre...
KEKE PALMER My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN![]()
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life...
PENN JILLETTE![]()
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was...
PAUL MERTON I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in ...
JESSIE MUELLER When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ...
DELBERT TEILLE I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a ...
TAHMOH PENIKETT I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks a...
SLASH Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER![]()
'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. S...
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE It was pretty scary at first.
JULIAN ELIZONDO The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
PAUL MILLER My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
JAMES IHA![]()
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
CARLOS SLIM![]()
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've b...
JESSICA SIMPSON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT![]()
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
DAVID ROBINSON After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re...
NOAH BAUMBACH I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
ANITA DIAMENT![]()
I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned ...
GERARD BUTLER![]()
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that...
ORLANDO BLOOM![]()
My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.
EMMA WATSON My payroll record says I started in 1952, when I was 12. But I was working in the business before th...
GARY MACHABEE![]()
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ...
BERNADETTE PEREZ![]()
I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.![]()
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted...
FIONA APPLE![]()
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT
QUESTLOVE
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did e...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my ...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then... TOM DRURY When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. TOM WAITS Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. STINE My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ...
SCOTT EASTWOOD I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.
BRYCE HARPER I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY
I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. GILLIAN FLYNN I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
CARLOS PENA, JR. I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
YOUNG BUCK When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
FACUNDO PIERES When I hurt my back, I'd never felt anything like that before. Obviously, it was pretty scary.
MARCO RIVERA
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave m... HELEN REDDY
I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. SIA
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, ... SIRI HUSTVEDT
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. RON WHITE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit ...
DUFFY
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. DAMON WAYANS I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so ...
CONOR JACKSON
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set. TRAVIS SCOTT I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for a...
BIRDY I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13...
ANEURIN BARNARD My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN
Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us... TRE COOL
I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cros... BILL PLYMPTON I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
HARMONY KORINE I think I was 13 when we had the talk. My dad is in law enforcement and I know I'm not going to use,...
KYLE MONAHAN I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a... TOBY KEITH I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I w... YANI TSENG I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN I was shaking pretty bad. My 'shaking meter' usually tells my guys [crew] how good I run. When I cam...
ELLIOTT SADLER I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
LARA STONE My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to...
PATRICK MURPHY
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second on... KATEE SACKHOFF Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym ...
JANUARY JONES
My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile. JEB BUSH I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON
I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I started out with a tank when I was in seventh grade. I was 12 or 13. I have 20 tanks now and two p...
BILL SANDERS
When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pre... KEKE PALMER My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life... PENN JILLETTE
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was... PAUL MERTON I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in ...
JESSIE MUELLER When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ...
DELBERT TEILLE I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a ...
TAHMOH PENIKETT I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks a...
SLASH Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER
'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. S... KODI SMIT-MCPHEE It was pretty scary at first.
JULIAN ELIZONDO The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
PAUL MILLER My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
JAMES IHA
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've b... JESSICA SIMPSON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service. DAVID ROBINSON After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re... NOAH BAUMBACH I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
ANITA DIAMENT
I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned ... GERARD BUTLER
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM
My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner. EMMA WATSON My payroll record says I started in 1952, when I was 12. But I was working in the business before th...
GARY MACHABEE
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... MAYA ANGELOU That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ...
BERNADETTE PEREZ
I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted... FIONA APPLE
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or... STEVEN STRAIT
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he... 
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are... 
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great... 
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th... 
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#... 
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and... 
It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones... 
You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. 
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there 
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a... 
The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as we... 
Life flows on within you and without you. 
Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel ... 
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in ete... 
She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry. 
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th... 
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ... 
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not... 
Times change, and we change with them. 
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of th... 
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. 
Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light. 
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. 
What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? 
The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to accou... 
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such ... 
My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good... 
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... 
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. 
The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h... 
I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see th... 