Starting Out Quotes

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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

I'm just another guy starting out.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.

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

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

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

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.