Modest Start Quotes

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

I wasn't rapping and freestyling in high school. I wasn't telling people I was gonna be a rapper when I was a little kid. It wasn't set in stone that it was my dream.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

I have reached here by selling tea.

I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

I grew up in the amateurs.

I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don't think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.