I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill
I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
‐‐ Kiki Smith
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.
‐‐ Pete Townshend
I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
‐‐ Rob McClure
I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
‐‐ Caitriona Balfe
I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.
‐‐ Michelle Phan
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo
I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
‐‐ Aaron Schock
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
‐‐ Junot Diaz
I didn't study acting.
‐‐ Ray Walston
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
‐‐ Eric Bana
I didn't study; I live.
‐‐ Eric Cantona
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.
‐‐ Bernard Beckett
I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.
‐‐ Joss Whedon
I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.
‐‐ Peggy Lipton
I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.
‐‐ Susana Martinez
I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham
I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder
I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.
‐‐ Dianna Agron
I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.
‐‐ Olesya Rulin
I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
‐‐ Daniel J. Evans
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
‐‐ Steven Wright
I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.
‐‐ Mathias Rust
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
‐‐ David Antin
I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
‐‐ Tippi Hedren
I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.
‐‐ Boy George
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
‐‐ Jessye Norman
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
‐‐ Amy Bloom
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
‐‐ Bill Forsyth
I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.
‐‐ Maureen McCormick
I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.
‐‐ Joe Perry
I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
‐‐ Cynthia Robinson
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar
I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.
‐‐ Misty May-Treanor
I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi
I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.
‐‐ Seth Rogen
I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.
‐‐ Bill Callahan
I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
‐‐ Louis Theroux
I didn't think; I experimented.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess
I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
‐‐ Grace Jones
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
‐‐ Penelope Lively
I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
‐‐ Zac Brown
I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.
‐‐ Leslie Mann