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When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t...
NATALIE ZEA I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
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CLETE OAKS I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a...
TOPHER GRACE I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s...
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We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ...
JULIA STILES What I've achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid. I've had that type of de...
AMARE STOUDEMIRE I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! ...
LIAM CUNNINGHAM There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngst...
MICHAEL OWEN When I started, three kids would be a big training.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a...
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LORRIE MOORE I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'...
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When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou...
JOE TORRE I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and fai...
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I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my w...
ERNIE HARWELL A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
MICHAEL OWEN I was really anemic. We still haven't figured out what happened, but as I started training harder an...
CRAIG LEWIS I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twent...
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When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. T...
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YOTAM OTTOLENGHI I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I u...
BETHANY MOTA We had a great drama department and a great on site voice teacher actually. I started taking lessons...
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the oth...
KATARINA WITT When Tim left it was really neat to see people come out of the woodwork. People who, for whatever re...
AIMEE ARGOTE It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me...
CATE CAMPBELL![]()
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When...
RAIN I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
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My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and...
CHRIS BROWN I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
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TOM WALSH![]()
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't ...
RICHARD DREYFUSS When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI![]()
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion t...
CARA DELEVINGNE My start was pretty bad. After I false-started, I had to sit and hold. My speed is coming. It was a ...
JOANNA HAYES![]()
I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett...
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I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve the...
LEWIS HOWES As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
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TIA MOWRY Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always dan...
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As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh...
WILLIAM SANDERSON![]()
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over...
CRAIG FERGUSON![]()
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But...
DAVID BOWIE The way I look at it, at practice I go really hard, and I have only three minutes between training s...
CODY WEIK I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a...
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I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra...
TONY HAWK 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS![]()
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league st...
RYAN GIGGS![]()
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI![]()
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE![]()
When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a group of people lined up to get my autograph, and I ...
NEIL GAIMAN I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
JERRY B. JENKINS I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD![]()
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t...
KENDALL JENNER So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK![]()
He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ...
RYAN GIGGS I was really nervous. Threw the ball really gently. Took it really easy, but then after I realized--...
KATHY LANGSTON![]()
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte...
SAM HOUSTON I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ...
GARY NUMAN I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was importa...
PETER FERRY I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY![]()
I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenag...
RICKI-LEE COULTER I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost...
RICHIE HAVENS![]()
I could do half a pull-up when I first started training, ... I literally, I tried to pull myself up,...
HILARY SWANK By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ...
ANDREA BARRETT![]()
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
TIM GUNN When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ...
MIRANDA COSGROVE If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have drop...
AJAY DEVGAN![]()
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a re...
BILL NIGHY![]()
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor...
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If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have ...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO![]()
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would...
ALAIN DUCASSE I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK![]()
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I...
DAVID FRIEDMAN![]()
I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would'...
HARRY DEAN STANTON![]()
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that...
GWEN STEFANI It's not as transparent as I would have liked it all to have been. It was an illogical way to say a ...
MARK SMITH![]()
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ...
EDEN HAZARD![]()
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with peopl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I h...
TAB HUNTER![]()
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of peo...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my rol...
HEATHER DOERKSEN If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe...
RON MOODY![]()
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I ...
RANDEEP HOODA I was very impressed with my team overall this year. When you get a chance to really look back at it...
KRISTI HEAFNER I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to ad...
MARLEN ESPARZA It had been a long time since I started a game, the middle of spring training when I threw like 60 p...
FERNANDO NIEVE It started to really tighten up after the first inning, and after that it got really, really funny, ...
JOSE CRUZ Oh, the cello comes in different sizes. I started with a smaller cello. But once I started playing, ...
ALEXANDRE BOUZLOV![]()
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great act...
BRIAN BLESSED I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history...
ELIZABETH OLSEN
NATALIE ZEA I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
BROOKE NEVIN I never had time to get married; I never had a spare minute. At my age I look back and think it woul...
CLETE OAKS I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a...
TOPHER GRACE I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s...
STEVEN BLUM
We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ... JULIA STILES What I've achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid. I've had that type of de...
AMARE STOUDEMIRE I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! ...
LIAM CUNNINGHAM There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngst...
MICHAEL OWEN When I started, three kids would be a big training.
JUDY OSTERHAGE While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career sta...
DEVON WILLIAMS
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a... ADAM BEACH When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry someb...
LORRIE MOORE I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'...
RORY MCCANN
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou... JOE TORRE I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and fai...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
LYNN DAVIES
That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my w... ERNIE HARWELL A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
MICHAEL OWEN I was really anemic. We still haven't figured out what happened, but as I started training harder an...
CRAIG LEWIS I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twent...
MAGGIE CHEUNG
When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. T... PATRICIA BRIGGS
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from ... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I u...
BETHANY MOTA We had a great drama department and a great on site voice teacher actually. I started taking lessons...
CHAD KIMBALL
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the oth... KATARINA WITT When Tim left it was really neat to see people come out of the woodwork. People who, for whatever re...
AIMEE ARGOTE It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me...
CATE CAMPBELL
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When... RAIN I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
DARREN ROBINSON
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and... CHRIS BROWN I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ...
TOM WALSH
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't ... RICHARD DREYFUSS When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion t... CARA DELEVINGNE My start was pretty bad. After I false-started, I had to sit and hold. My speed is coming. It was a ...
JOANNA HAYES
I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett... J. K. SIMMONS
I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve the... LEWIS HOWES As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
DICHEN LACHMAN
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always dan...
MISTY COPELAND
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh... WILLIAM SANDERSON
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over... CRAIG FERGUSON
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But... DAVID BOWIE The way I look at it, at practice I go really hard, and I have only three minutes between training s...
CODY WEIK I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a...
JOANNE HARRIS
I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra... TONY HAWK 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league st... RYAN GIGGS
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ... DITA VON TEESE
When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a group of people lined up to get my autograph, and I ... NEIL GAIMAN I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
JERRY B. JENKINS I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK
He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ... RYAN GIGGS I was really nervous. Threw the ball really gently. Took it really easy, but then after I realized--...
KATHY LANGSTON
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte... SAM HOUSTON I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ...
GARY NUMAN I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was importa...
PETER FERRY I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenag... RICKI-LEE COULTER I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost...
RICHIE HAVENS
I could do half a pull-up when I first started training, ... I literally, I tried to pull myself up,... HILARY SWANK By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ...
ANDREA BARRETT
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher. TIM GUNN When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ...
MIRANDA COSGROVE If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have drop...
AJAY DEVGAN
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a re... BILL NIGHY
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor... LORDE
If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have ... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would... ALAIN DUCASSE I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I... DAVID FRIEDMAN
I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would'... HARRY DEAN STANTON
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that... GWEN STEFANI It's not as transparent as I would have liked it all to have been. It was an illogical way to say a ...
MARK SMITH
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ... EDEN HAZARD
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with peopl... ELIZABETH GILBERT The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I h...
TAB HUNTER
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of peo... HARRY CONNICK, JR. I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my rol...
HEATHER DOERKSEN If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe...
RON MOODY
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I ... RANDEEP HOODA I was very impressed with my team overall this year. When you get a chance to really look back at it...
KRISTI HEAFNER I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to ad...
MARLEN ESPARZA It had been a long time since I started a game, the middle of spring training when I threw like 60 p...
FERNANDO NIEVE It started to really tighten up after the first inning, and after that it got really, really funny, ...
JOSE CRUZ Oh, the cello comes in different sizes. I started with a smaller cello. But once I started playing, ...
ALEXANDRE BOUZLOV
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great act... BRIAN BLESSED I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history...
ELIZABETH OLSEN
