All Quotes

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
‐‐ Angela Lansbury

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
‐‐ Charles Grodin

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
‐‐ Kate del Castillo

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.
‐‐ Jencarlos Canela

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.
‐‐ Lindsay Hartley

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
‐‐ Hector Elizondo

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
‐‐ Brooke Nevin

I started in the club route. I did the alternative scene later on. When I lived in New York, I did the Luna Lounge and stuff, where Janeane Garofalo and David Cross and all those guys worked out of, but I came from a comedy club background. I'm proud of that background. I'm one of the people that really crossed over and did both.
‐‐ Nick Swardson

I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
‐‐ Joel David Moore

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
‐‐ Anne Burrell

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.
‐‐ Morgan Fairchild

I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.
‐‐ Andre Royo

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
‐‐ Zachary Levi

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.
‐‐ Lin Shaye

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.
‐‐ James Wolk

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
‐‐ James Cromwell

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
‐‐ Rachael MacFarlane

I started in this business on soap operas.
‐‐ Lauren Holly

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
‐‐ Jerry Pournelle

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
‐‐ Audrey MacLean

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.
‐‐ Brian Grazer

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
‐‐ Michael Moschen

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.
‐‐ Aubrey Peeples

I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
‐‐ Maika Monroe

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
‐‐ R. Kelly

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
‐‐ Vincent Tan

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
‐‐ Roustam Tariko

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
‐‐ Philip Levine

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
‐‐ Danielle Trussoni

I started Little Athletics when I was five years old, but my Olympics dream started when I was 10 years old.
‐‐ Eloise Wellings

I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything.
‐‐ Kevin Harvey

I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.
‐‐ Thomas Dolby

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
‐‐ John Fusco

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.
‐‐ Rosie Perez

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
‐‐ Bryan Singer

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas