All Quotes

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
‐‐ Celine Dion

I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.
‐‐ Dean Stockwell

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
‐‐ Patrick Whitesell

I started at drama school at 18.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.
‐‐ Mary Barra

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.
‐‐ Matisyahu

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
‐‐ Herman Cain

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
‐‐ Dan Scanlon

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
‐‐ Mackenzie Astin

I started at the top and worked my way down.
‐‐ Orson Welles

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
‐‐ Vera Wang

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
‐‐ Mary Kom

I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
‐‐ Palmer Luckey

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.
‐‐ Alex Winston

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
‐‐ Mario Testino

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
‐‐ James Taylor

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'
‐‐ James Rosenquist

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
‐‐ Laini Taylor

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.
‐‐ Joe Tex

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.
‐‐ Emanuel Steward

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
‐‐ Juan Manuel Marquez

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
‐‐ Judith Miller

I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995.
‐‐ Francois-Henri Pinault

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.
‐‐ Juan Campodonico

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.
‐‐ Loni Love

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
‐‐ Jennifer Wyatt

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
‐‐ Magnus Carlsen

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
‐‐ Kit Williams

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.
‐‐ Jeri Ryan

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.
‐‐ Awkwafina

I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
‐‐ Martin Sheen

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
‐‐ R. Kelly

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I started changing my swing in late 1999.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
‐‐ Caity Lotz

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.
‐‐ Cassie Steele

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.
‐‐ Ron Eglash

I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD collection, and I have a Jordan shoe collection. And I don't drink, but I have a wine collection. I just started a sweatshirt collection. Every city that I'm in, I buy a sweatshirt. It's just something that I do.
‐‐ Marques Houston