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It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
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Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.


Joie Lee
I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.
Leighton Meester
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.


Laura Dekker
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.


Billie Jean King
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I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
Michel Hazanavicius
In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
Colm Meaney
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
Laura San Giacomo
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I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
Joan Allen
First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
Zoe McLellan
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I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
Tom Hardy
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.


Dan Byrd
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
Ashton Kutcher
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
Dan Gilroy
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In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
John Turturro
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To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
Michael Imperioli
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I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.
Meghan Markle
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My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'


Leland Orser
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
Tony Parsons
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