I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
‐‐ Leslie Cockburn
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
‐‐ Bill Hader
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
‐‐ Ira Sachs
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
‐‐ Caitlin Rose
I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish
I started making music professionally when I was 14.
‐‐ Sky Ferreira
I started making music that I loved and was passionate and excited about, but it was really cool when I started touring to realize it's an extremely diverse group of people who come out. In the front row, I'll have everyone from a little girl in a frilly tutu, to rockers and gamers and older couples. I love it that it's just everybody.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
‐‐ Tamra Davis
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
‐‐ Yann Tiersen
I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.
‐‐ Ruby Rose
I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.
‐‐ Charlie Puth
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
‐‐ Scott Stapp
I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal
I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
‐‐ James Brown
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann
I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.
‐‐ Cody Horn
I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.
‐‐ Lily Cole
I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini
I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.
‐‐ Charlotte Arnold
I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.
‐‐ Anja Rubik
I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
‐‐ Lara Stone
I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne
I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid
I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.
‐‐ Emily Ratajkowski
I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
‐‐ Tao Okamoto
I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
‐‐ Samantha Stosur
I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe
I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.
‐‐ Tucker Max
I started my business with my best friend from high school.
‐‐ Dave Goldberg
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a career shift. I went to graduate school in computer science, and I began developing educational technologies - in particular, technologies to engage children in creative learning experiences.
‐‐ Mitchel Resnick
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
‐‐ John Battelle
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
‐‐ Rob Thomas
I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
‐‐ Carrie Ann Inaba
I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.
‐‐ Tom Verica
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
‐‐ Ann-Marie MacDonald
I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez
I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
‐‐ Peter Barris
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
‐‐ Tom Glazer
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
‐‐ Gordon Neufeld
I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
‐‐ Daniela Ruah
I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.
‐‐ Mary Jo White
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.
‐‐ Doug Liman
I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
‐‐ Kareena Kapoor Khan
I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
‐‐ Rene Redzepi
I started my first business at 14!
‐‐ Terry McAuliffe
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy