All Quotes

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
‐‐ Jock Sturges

When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
‐‐ Hari Kondabolu

When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.
‐‐ Derf

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.
‐‐ Donna Karan

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.
‐‐ John Logan

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.
‐‐ Dennis Eckersley

When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
‐‐ David Morrell

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
‐‐ Jim Woodring

When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
‐‐ David Duchovny

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
‐‐ Gail Collins

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
‐‐ Bob Parsons

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.
‐‐ Heikki Kovalainen

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
‐‐ Bernice Johnson Reagon

When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
‐‐ Josh Kopelman

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success.
‐‐ Michael Lehmann

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.
‐‐ David Spade

When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.
‐‐ Alek Wek

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.
‐‐ Natalie Zea

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.
‐‐ Mark Leyner

When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As You Like It.' I used to think I would die if I could play that. But then I started doing movies, and I had children, and I moved to Los Angeles. And now I kind of can't remember what those roles would be.
‐‐ Annette Bening

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.
‐‐ Robert Redford

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
‐‐ Jim Butcher

When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, 'Grace, you're a Cylon, she wouldn't do that.' And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.
‐‐ Grace Park

When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records.
‐‐ Jim Ed Brown

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
‐‐ Jean Paul Gaultier

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
‐‐ Sam Neill

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.
‐‐ Suzanne Pleshette

When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.
‐‐ Billy Herman

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.
‐‐ Linda Evangelista

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
‐‐ David Sze

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
‐‐ Terri Windling

When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'
‐‐ Anna Silk

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.
‐‐ Roger Corman

When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.
‐‐ Chris Klein