Quotes About Beginning

When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

'The Hulk' was the beginning of me, a platform as an actor to grow.

The platform of 'Kyunki' is irreplaceable in my life. This is where I began my journey as an actor.

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the body, so at school, I was encouraged to play football, and that's where everything started.

We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

Every team starts out at the beginning of the year saying, 'We want to win a championship,' but you've got to have a goal of getting to the playoffs first.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Petruchio is a very clever guy and clearly has a lot of bravado and confidence. My feeling is that he's broke at the beginning of the play and needs a dowry to save face back home.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

I want to be a 'coffee guy,' but I just haven't started.

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.