I started off singing when I was little. My parents have said I was singing at 3 years old. So I think it was just something I probably came into this world wanting to do and knowing I was going to do.
‐‐ Brooke Elliott
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
‐‐ Bob Iger
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander
I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
‐‐ Naveen Jain
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock
I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.
‐‐ Vincent Tan
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
‐‐ Robert Quine
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.
‐‐ Jesse Spencer
I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
‐‐ David Leslie Johnson
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
‐‐ Claire Bloom
I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
‐‐ Bill Budge
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow
I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.
‐‐ Eliza Taylor
I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
‐‐ Norm MacDonald
I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The first thing I ever did was in 1967. This guy Bill Keene had a little talk show at noon, and Gary Owens took over for a week. He knew about this dummy bit I used to do, this ventriloquist thing, and I was on 'Keene at Noon.'
‐‐ Albert Brooks
I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
‐‐ Corey Haim
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.
‐‐ Humphrey Lyttelton
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - 'God Loves, Man Kills', which is a brilliant story.
‐‐ Josh Helman
I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.
‐‐ Joyce DeWitt
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg
I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.
‐‐ Burnie Burns
I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
‐‐ Becki Newton
I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries
I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.
‐‐ Ronald Burkle
I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.
‐‐ Mary Fallin
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
‐‐ Alexander Haig
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany
I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar
I started out as a Democrat.
‐‐ Gale Norton
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
‐‐ Rick Astley
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal
I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
‐‐ Johnny Depp
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
‐‐ Jack Canfield
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.
‐‐ Lloyd Blankfein
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot
I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.
‐‐ Li Bingbing
I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra
I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.
‐‐ Alan J. Heeger
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
‐‐ Alice Walker
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina
I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
‐‐ Dorothy Malone
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
‐‐ Chadwick Boseman
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
‐‐ Pauley Perrette