Initial Struggles Quotes

Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.

I didn't write a ton before 'After,' to be honest.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

It was a nerve-wracking first few years having to tour and perform in front of people with the little bit of confidence I had.

It doesn't always click for a new player in a new team: you don't always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

When I started presenting 'Scrapheap Challenge,' I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.

I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.

Being the Lux girl has been a real journey! I did my first ad before my first film released. I was shy and unaware.

Initially, when I got into the world of music, I was treated like an underdog.

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.

The first year at Juilliard is, I think, the best. And partly why I left - I only went one year. Partly why I felt okay leaving is that the most important elements, I believe, happen in the first year. What they do is they tear down all your conceptions of acting, and they take away all your tricks that you've learned.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

Paige is someone who is very close to me - ya know, outside of the ring - she helped me when I first got to NXT.

I was a very young 21-year-old. I was very scared. I spent three years at university in west London, and I went into central London three times. I came from Shropshire, and just having travelled that far was enough ambition.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

I was pretty dreadful on my first night as an announcer as back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn't help and some of the fighter's names were unpronounceable.

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.