Happy Birthday: Adam Goldberg

Born: October 25, 1970 in Santa Monica, California, USA

(2007 – On what role stands out the most) There’s absolutely no question that it’s Dazed and Confused (1993). I think of that as being my first real movie. Up until that point, I would get a job. It could be speaking barely – or not speaking, in the case of Designing Women (1986) – doing these little parts, and then I’d go back to my job at the bookstore. Dazed and Confused (1993) sort of drew that line in the sand, where even though I didn’t really make any money, I knew I could never go back into the bookstore, because it would seem strange. Beyond that sort of superficial, practical effect, I always feel bad for people who didn’t have a first experience like that. I did that film with these kids, and a lot of them, it was their first time on location. It was definitely a fun movie, but it operated on so many levels, because there was the life outside the movie. It’s this really abbreviated, condensed, high-octane equivalent of the college experience I essentially never had.