Career Start Quotes

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

I never planned to become an actor.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I got my first job by exceeding expectations.

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'

Take any job, get started and stop with the video games and pot. I'm not for that.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.

I always think back to that first night in Brooklyn, where I debuted, and it was this total surprise. I just remember thinking, 'I hope they care. I hope they remember me.' The way they embraced me that night, I knew it was the start of something special.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

I made my film debut in 1973.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.