Starting Out Quotes

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

You will never win if you never begin.

The only thing I could do was play music, because I'd studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in Alexandria. So I started out with two other boys in little clubs in Athens. I became a singer by default when our lead vocalist was late one night. Someone had to sing.

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.

You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.

I expect to work hard, earn the respect of my teammates and hopefully I can start.

Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.

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

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know, what it is right now is I feel like I'm still learning as a filmmaker, I'm still starting out.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

'Power' is Andy Bean's first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.