I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal
I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
‐‐ Crispin Glover
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
‐‐ Biz Stone
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
‐‐ Keith Coogan
I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
‐‐ Jim Bakker
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
‐‐ Richie Havens
I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.
‐‐ Marco Beltrami
I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.
‐‐ Bill Huizenga
I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
‐‐ Andre Holland
I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.
‐‐ Marvin Hagler
I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had some kids and they asked me if I would mind doing it. I was very happy to do it. That's where I got my training before I went to the public. I did that for several years. It was actually the best vocal training I could have had.
‐‐ Steven Blum
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
‐‐ Jim Cummings
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.
‐‐ Brendan Fletcher
I started out doing musicals.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher
I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.
‐‐ Ira Glass
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
‐‐ Sam Childers
I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.
‐‐ Susan Sullivan
I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.
‐‐ James Van Der Beek
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
‐‐ Clark Gregg
I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Tara Lynne Barr
I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.
‐‐ Jewel Staite
I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'
‐‐ Megyn Price
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke
I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
‐‐ Marco Arment
I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
‐‐ Kenny Baker
I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
‐‐ Yolanda Adams
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
‐‐ George Lucas
I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
‐‐ George Saunders
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
‐‐ Paul Auster
I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.
‐‐ Kim Dickens
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.
‐‐ Kevin Rahm
I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III
I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.
‐‐ Andrea Martin
I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.
‐‐ Matisyahu
I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
‐‐ Robert Smith
I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.
‐‐ Lynn Coady
I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.
‐‐ Linden Ashby
I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
‐‐ Georgia Groome
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem
I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.
‐‐ Yigal Azrouel
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.
‐‐ Steve-O
I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.
‐‐ Kellan Lutz