All Quotes

I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.
‐‐ Umberto Guidoni

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
‐‐ Nick Mancuso

I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
‐‐ Crystal Reed

I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great.
‐‐ Stephen Amell

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.
‐‐ Michael Reagan

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
‐‐ Jim Varney

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.
‐‐ Tim Burton

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel

I started to grow microbial cellulose to explore an ecofriendly textile for clothing and accessories but, very quickly, I realized this method had potential for all sorts of other biodegradable consumer products.
‐‐ Suzanne Lee

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
‐‐ Charlie Simpson

I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
‐‐ Anne Carson

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
‐‐ B. B. King

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.
‐‐ Alice Smith

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.
‐‐ Jessie J

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
‐‐ Mira Nair

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'
‐‐ Tao Okamoto

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
‐‐ Patty Loveless

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.
‐‐ Dirk Nowitzki

I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.
‐‐ Tora Berger

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.
‐‐ Carol Windley

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.
‐‐ Eric McCormack

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.
‐‐ Anne Meara

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.
‐‐ Charlotte Casiraghi

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.
‐‐ Roddy McDowall

I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.
‐‐ Jane Green

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
‐‐ Olivier Dahan

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
‐‐ Ayad Akhtar

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
‐‐ Tove Lo

I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?
‐‐ Colin Salmon

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
‐‐ R. Kelly

I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.
‐‐ Sirio Maccioni

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.
‐‐ Cutter Hodierne

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
‐‐ Graham Parker