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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

— Olivia Cooke

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

— Loni Anderson

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

— Matisyahu

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

— Parker Posey

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

— Christian Kane

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

— Blythe Danner

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

— Dorothy Malone

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

— Jake Epstein

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

— Billy Dee Williams

My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

— Paulo Costanzo