All Quotes

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
‐‐ Ang Lee

When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
‐‐ Euzhan Palcy

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.
‐‐ Yuji Horii

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.
‐‐ Pauline Collins

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
‐‐ Patty Griffin

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
‐‐ Patina Miller

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
‐‐ Dita Von Teese

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
‐‐ Mike Posner

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
‐‐ Neil Peart

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
‐‐ Corin Tucker

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'
‐‐ Andy Rourke

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.
‐‐ Roberto Alomar

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
‐‐ Marta

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.
‐‐ Afrojack

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
‐‐ Harold Prince

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
‐‐ Dominic Chianese

When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
‐‐ Jacqueline Carey

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
‐‐ Tom Jones

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
‐‐ Alison Weir

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
‐‐ Don Kardong

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
‐‐ Zhang Jindong

When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.
‐‐ Shirley Bassey

When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.
‐‐ Kehlani

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

When I started Sosa & Associates, there were only 3 million Latinos in the U.S. and only four Hispanic-specialized marketing agencies.I had one little goal for our small San Antonio-based agency: to be the largest Hispanic-specialized agency in the United States. We planned for our success and achieved our goal.
‐‐ Lionel Sosa

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
‐‐ Chevy Stevens

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.
‐‐ Dolph Lundgren

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
‐‐ Van Morrison

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.
‐‐ Dick Dale

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
‐‐ Mark Lawrence

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.
‐‐ Mike Mignola

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.
‐‐ James Mercer