I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Torrey DeVitto
I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.
‐‐ Luka Sulic
I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
‐‐ Dave Holland
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
‐‐ Christy Turlington
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
‐‐ Ricky Williams
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
‐‐ Ben Nicholson
I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.
‐‐ Brian Austin Green
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
‐‐ Jake Owen
I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci
I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan
I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
‐‐ Nick Mason
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
‐‐ Casey Kasem
I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
‐‐ Tory Lanez
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
‐‐ Ice T
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
‐‐ Iggy Azalea
I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
‐‐ Young Buck
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
‐‐ Ben Carson
I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
‐‐ Kate Christensen
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
‐‐ Richard Ford
I started reading seriously after I was in college. I read comic books. I read every 'Power Man' and 'Iron Fist' that ever came out. I had a teacher introduce me to poetry, and that kind of woke me up.
‐‐ Ross Gay
I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
‐‐ Austin Peck
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
‐‐ Erik Larson
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
‐‐ Chuck Jones
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
‐‐ Dean Kamen
I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
‐‐ Kenny G
I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi
I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
‐‐ Matt Damon
I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
‐‐ Randy Newman
I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
‐‐ Adam Lambert
I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson
I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.
‐‐ Mark Boone Junior
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
‐‐ Gabriel Iglesias
I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.
‐‐ Dhani Jones
I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.
‐‐ Christian Kane
I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.
‐‐ Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.
‐‐ Rachael Ray
I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly
I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney
I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.
‐‐ Norah O'Donnell