I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna
I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream.
‐‐ Paul Eenhoorn
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
‐‐ Layne Staley
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
‐‐ Emo Philips
I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton
I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.
‐‐ Brian Helgeland
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.
‐‐ Greg Graffin
I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.
‐‐ Emily Saliers
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
‐‐ Olesya Rulin
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
‐‐ Tinashe
I was in a convent for a year.
‐‐ Beatrice Wood
I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.
‐‐ Adriana Lima
I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.
‐‐ Mickey Cochrane
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
‐‐ Fergie
I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren
I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
‐‐ Billy Bragg
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan
I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
‐‐ Fred Hammond
I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
‐‐ Olivia Munn
I was in a modeling contest when I was 16. People don't think it's different, modeling versus beauty pageants, but it is. As a model, you're still an individual. When you are crowned a Miss, you are representative of a lot.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
‐‐ Jack White
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
‐‐ Adam Driver
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.
‐‐ Jacob Latimore
I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have a song in there.
‐‐ Christian Kane
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
‐‐ Vanessa Morgan
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
‐‐ David Harewood
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
‐‐ Steve Truglia
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven
I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.
‐‐ Sherman Hemsley
I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.
‐‐ Christine Lavin
I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
‐‐ Darrell Royal
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
‐‐ Nate Ruess
I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
‐‐ Kiesza
I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!
‐‐ Blake Lively
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
‐‐ Bill Hader
I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
‐‐ James McBride
I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.
‐‐ Leslie Hope
I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
‐‐ Shania Twain
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
‐‐ Huey Lewis
I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey
I was in about in the 8th grade when I started recording R&B, so much of what was on was the Motown sound, and The Beatles had pretty much come over and taken America by storm.
‐‐ Betty Wright
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs