It was tennis that got me started in business. When I was 16 and about to embark on my A-levels, I set up a tennis academy and became one of the youngest qualified tennis coaches in the country. It did well; by the time I was 19 I was able to buy my first house.
I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.
I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
I feel really blessed that I found what I love doing and was able to make it a living from such a young age. I realize that I'm really fortunate. I didn't train; I kind of got lucky. And I remember that every day. I think I have to remind myself of that to really, fully appreciate life now.
I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.
I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.
When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.
I was 15 when I made my debut for the national team.
I started a theater company when I was 17.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.
The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.
