Early Beginnings Quotes

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when I was playing for a local youth team at Gern in Munich.

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

For me, a late start was a good thing. A lot of kids who start too early get bored. I'd done all the things I wanted to do, I'd enjoyed myself, having fun and playing as an amateur and that was important.

I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment.

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little kids who did it around school, and then I got to university and made lots of bad plays and short films, and then midway through that, it suddenly dawned on me that this might be a satisfying way to earn a living, if that was at all feasible.

I started to play at four years old. I went to Corinthians at nine years old. Then, it started to become more serious.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

The Founding Fathers did not foresee the party system as it has developed, and what they knew about its early beginnings the disliked intensely.

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.