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My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

— Jermaine Dupri

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

— Jennifer Garner

When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage.

— Danielle Panabaker

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

— Merce Cunningham

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.

— Pierce Brosnan

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

— Josh Dallas

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

— Tatiana Maslany

I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It was a lot of hustle, a learning curve.

— Retta