Late Starter Quotes

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

I was always a late bloomer.

I've talked to a bunch of big men who told me they didn't really start playing basketball until seventh or eighth grade. That wasn't the situation with me.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

To put it mildly, I was just a very late bloomer.

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

I started music late.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

I'm a late developer.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.

I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice.

I didn't even ski halfpipe until I was 14 because the resort where I lived didn't have one. So it wasn't always my favorite event, but I grew into it.

I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.

I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.