All Quotes

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.
‐‐ Mike May

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
‐‐ Lance Reddick

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.
‐‐ Michelle Williams

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.
‐‐ Stephen Dorff

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
‐‐ Megan Gallagher

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.
‐‐ Paul Dano

I started acting professionally at age 19.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
‐‐ Robert Gossett

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
‐‐ Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.
‐‐ Kristanna Loken

I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.
‐‐ Sandrine Holt

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
‐‐ Catherine Bell

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
‐‐ Eric Bogosian

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
‐‐ Josie Loren

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.
‐‐ Jason Fuchs

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
‐‐ Naomie Harris

I started acting when I was three years old, so I was able to see the inside before seeing the wrapping; I wasn't seeing, like, the way tabloids make people.
‐‐ Marc-Andre Grondin

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
‐‐ Bjork

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
‐‐ Danny Huston

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
‐‐ Bruce Feirstein

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

I started as a model in Mexico - I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.
‐‐ Constance Marie

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.
‐‐ John Polson

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

I started as a print reporter.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

I started as a road cyclist and did all types apart from BMX. I started doing a lot of competitions, and then my dad suggested I tried the track. At first the thought of falling is scary, but you realise soon that if you go fast enough, you'll be fine. I realised it was more than a hobby when I was 16.
‐‐ Grégory Baugé

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
‐‐ Fran Drescher

I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
‐‐ Mike White

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
‐‐ Gary Sinise

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.
‐‐ Robert Redford

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
‐‐ Baltasar Kormakur

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar