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At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

— Hugh Jackman

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✓Similar Perspectives

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

— April Pearson

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

— Mary Page Keller

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

— Ed Asner

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

— Dane DeHaan

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

— Jacqueline Emerson

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

— Jaime Winstone

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

— Troy Garity

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

— Gabrielle Union

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

— Ving Rhames

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