I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
‐‐ Serinda Swan
I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin
I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.
‐‐ Rob Delaney
I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
‐‐ Sally Kellerman
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
‐‐ Adam Driver
I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
‐‐ Cofer Black
I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
‐‐ Octavia Spencer
I was an international studies major.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky
I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan
I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo
I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich
I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.
‐‐ Clark Gregg
I was an MTV guy back in the day.
‐‐ Sean Duffy
I was an observant but dreamy child. I had a lazy eye and wild curls.
‐‐ Monique Roffey
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
‐‐ Giorgio Armani
I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
‐‐ Bobby Orr
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
‐‐ Laurie Metcalf
I was an officer in my student council.
‐‐ Niki Tsongas
I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
‐‐ Liam Neeson
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
‐‐ John Madden
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
‐‐ Jack Vance
I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.
‐‐ Kim Dotcom
I was an only child.
‐‐ Richard Pryor
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
‐‐ Betty White
I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.
‐‐ Roger Moore
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
‐‐ Elvis Presley
I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
‐‐ Tamara Taylor
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
‐‐ Emilia Fox
I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
‐‐ Chandra Wilson
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.
‐‐ John Updike
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
‐‐ Jane Smiley
I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.
‐‐ Charlie Rose
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis
I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.
‐‐ Jack Reynor
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
‐‐ David Copperfield
I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
‐‐ Susan Hill
I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley