I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.
‐‐ Judy Davis
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin
I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.
‐‐ Bill Cosby
I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.
‐‐ John Tesh
I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.
‐‐ Robert Powell
I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela
I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.
‐‐ Charles Nelson Reilly
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson
I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane
I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.
‐‐ Jonathan Grayer
I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
‐‐ Hannah Ware
I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu
I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.
‐‐ Marissa Jaret Winokur
I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.
‐‐ Anupam Kher
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
‐‐ Don Rickles
I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.
‐‐ Rosie O'Donnell
I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons
I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Brie Larson
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid
I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.
‐‐ Carrie-Anne Moss
I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
‐‐ Jack Herer
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
‐‐ Julia Child
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
‐‐ Jerry Doyle
I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
‐‐ Phil Hartman
I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek
I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby.
‐‐ Roger Rees
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
‐‐ Judith Rossner
I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
‐‐ Constance Marie
I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.
‐‐ Tom Douglas
I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.
‐‐ Mireille Mathieu
I was 40 when I did my first movie.
‐‐ Danny Aiello
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
‐‐ Mary Karr
I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.
‐‐ Brian Grazer
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
‐‐ Charles Frazier
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
‐‐ Merle Haggard
I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
‐‐ Jerry Hall
I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.
‐‐ Melania Trump
I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
‐‐ Owen Benjamin
I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
‐‐ Ernest Cline
I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron