I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
‐‐ Ron Silver
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
‐‐ James Worthy
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.
‐‐ Laurene Powell Jobs
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
‐‐ Tim Robbins
I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
‐‐ Abbi Jacobson
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding
I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'
‐‐ Allison Tolman
I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
‐‐ Imelda May
I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
‐‐ Kate Moss
I started going gray in my early twenties.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc
I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand
I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
‐‐ Boy George
I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.
‐‐ Lexi Thompson
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
‐‐ Bernice Johnson Reagon
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson
I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.
‐‐ Busta Rhymes
I started growing my own organic vegetables... and started a routine of generally going to bed at 9.30 to 10 o'clock every night and sleeping until 7 A.M. I take perfect care of my machine.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck
I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon's Gymnastix in Houston, and that's how I got started.
‐‐ Simone Biles
I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.
‐‐ Polly Bergen
I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.
‐‐ Mitch Lasky
I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.
‐‐ Sullivan Stapleton
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
‐‐ Brendan Gleeson
I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.
‐‐ Tequan Richmond
I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
‐‐ Jacob Whitesides
I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.
‐‐ Neve McIntosh
I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson
I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.
‐‐ Lindsay Fox
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
‐‐ Quincy Jones
I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
‐‐ Cassie Steele
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
‐‐ John Ratzenberger
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
‐‐ Hector Elizondo
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
‐‐ Jean Giraud
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci
I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.
‐‐ Paulina Rubio
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
‐‐ Alan Parsons
I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
‐‐ James Surowiecki
I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
‐‐ Phillip Lim
I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire
I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.
‐‐ Jessica Lucas
I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.
‐‐ Al Kaline
I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
‐‐ Valerie Azlynn
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
‐‐ Jon Secada
I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!
‐‐ Vivica A. Fox
I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
‐‐ Frank Shorter
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
‐‐ Florence Henderson