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The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

— Angela Bassett

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

— Jerry Lewis

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

— Ato Essandoh

I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

— Dan Byrd

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

— Georgia Groome

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.

— Adrienne Shelly

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

— Kina Grannis

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

— Kevin Spacey

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

— Nina Arianda

✗Opposing Perspectives

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

— Sally Hawkins