All Quotes

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it.
‐‐ Ana Layevska

When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
‐‐ Oliver Jackson-Cohen

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right?
‐‐ Sung Kang

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
‐‐ Brian J. White

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.
‐‐ Jason Isaacs

When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
‐‐ James McAvoy

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
‐‐ James Purefoy

When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
‐‐ Salma Hayek

When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
‐‐ Sam Robards

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
‐‐ Richard Gere

When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.
‐‐ Max Martini

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

When I started at Pratt, Spike Lee had his 40 Acres and A Mule studios down the street. You'd see Rosie Perez walking around going to Mike's Coffee Shop. So it was this black bohemian.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.
‐‐ Colin Jost

When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first thing I watched was 'Lost.' It was summer break from grad school, and I watched it all in a row, like as many hours a day as I could, as though I were clocking in at a job.
‐‐ Alexandra Kleeman

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.
‐‐ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book series, I thought of it as a three-book series.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
‐‐ Ted Turner

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.
‐‐ Shalom Harlow

When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.
‐‐ Ruchi Sanghvi

When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls.
‐‐ Grace Helbig

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
‐‐ Emma Watson

When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
‐‐ Ozwald Boateng

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
‐‐ Cesar Pelli

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
‐‐ Paul Oakenfold

When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
‐‐ Peter Hook

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley