Starting Out Quotes - Page 3

• Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Heart, Play

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe. That way they come to expect fumbling and clumsiness and they say, "Oh, it must be a charming part of his personality."

  Nick Offerman

  Keys, Personality, Sloppiness

  "Interview: Nick Offerman on his ‘Simpsons’ voice and TV life after ‘Parks and Recreation’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 3, 2014.

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• I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Firsts, Breathe, Used

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Country, Song, Writing

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• I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.

  John Cena

  Dream, Teacher, Real

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• It's weird, sometimes I still see myself as just starting out. I tend to forget how much I've been doing, but in the beginning it is about the hustle, being out there and doing the work. Nothing is going to come to you, you have to get out there and do the work, and I've been doing that. But sometimes it's good to take a break and let these things air out. Reflect and take it in.

  Michael K. Williams

  Air, Hustle, Sometimes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

  Harrison Ford

  New York, Choices, Coins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Form, Process

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

  William Monahan

  Heart, Years, Soul

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Gena Rowlands

  Thinking, People, Starting

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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

  Fred Foster

  Starting, Difficult, Ifs

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I meet so many people. I want to be genuine and open with everyone, because when I was young and just starting out, I remember I was around people who were successful, and I thought that some were kind of cool or off-putting to their fans. It always really bothered me. So I think I may sometimes go too far out of my way.

  Rob Lowe

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• As we're growing and stuff, it's been amazing to feel so embraced and have them be so excited. I definitely leaned into my dad a little more starting out because once we actually started to get those people knocking on our doors and emailing.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dad, Doors, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I can say for myself that I feel like I've gotten a ton of opportunities in the digital space and not a lot in the traditional space when I was first starting out.

  Grace Helbig

  Opportunity, Space, Digital

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Email, Back In The Day

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• When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Blessed, Exercise, Opportunity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just starting out. I suspect there is a difference between being an unknown artist and being a celebrated artist. When nobody knows your work, nobody except you really cares whether or not you paint.

  Liza Campbell

  Artist, Ivy, Differences

  Source: newwest.net

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Taken, Airplane, Athlete

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• I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

  Maria Shriver

  Important, Asking, World

  Maria Shriver (2008). “Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within.”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  Natasha Leggero

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Talking

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• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Needs, Comparison

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• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Fun, Drama, Able

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks BEING FLYNN and DREDD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing - everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.

  Allison Janney

  Needs, Actors, Favors

  "Allison Janney Talks Working with Jason Bateman, Pranks, Her Desire to Be on HOMELAND, THE WEST WING, and More on the Set of BAD WORDS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. March 29, 2014.

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• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Skills, Ideas

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Kids, Ice, Tunes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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