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I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

— Mos Def

I didn't get targeted in high school for being a Muslim - it wasn't that - but I always felt like an outsider in…

— Mustafa Ali

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only…

— James McAvoy

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

— Dalai Lama

I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that.

— Lawrence Wright

I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family.

— Wendy Long

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it…

— Luke Ford

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

— Melody Carlson

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

— Michaela Coel

My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced…

— Ross Douthat