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When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

— Dolph Lundgren

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

— Adepero Oduye

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

— Jodie Foster

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

— Campbell Scott

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

— Carson Daly

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

— Manish Dayal

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

— Heather Donahue

✗Opposing Perspectives

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

— Rain

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

— Louis Gossett, Jr.

Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.

— Joie Lee