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I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
Anthony Hopkins
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Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
Crystal Bowersox
I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.
Colonel Sanders
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
Francia Raisa
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I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
Leelee Sobieski
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
Barbara Mandrell
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My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
Scott Stapp
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What online dating did was offer me the opportunity to go out with a bunch of different people from different industries; I really didn't want to limit myself with people who are in the entertainment industry.
Essence Atkins
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Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.
Mike Lookinland
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A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.


Graham Norton
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I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.
Carrie Vaughn
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I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
Peter Beard
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.


Andy Taylor
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I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
Peter Fonda
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I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.
Gordon Strachan
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I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
Lindsay Davenport
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Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
John Legend
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
Sam Hunt
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
Veronica Webb
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I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.
Ruzwana Bashir
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