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I was as excited when Beckham started to play with us as I am with the arrival of Cristiano.

— Raul

I was so wrapped up in the whole R&B, soul-pop world, that was all I listened to when I first started writing…

— Ruel

Obviously it is well documented that I didn't love the 800m when I started out. But I, er, learnt to appreciate it.

— Denise Lewis

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

— The Undertaker

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

— Kevin Bacon

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking…

— Milo Ventimiglia

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

— Patina Miller

Once I started getting more successful, I just stopped caring completely - 'I'll just do exactly what I want. It doesn't matter.'

— Ari Shaffir

When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of…

— Peter Crouch

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on…

— Michael Nyqvist

In many ways, Nog is a lot like me, like the way he goes after Starfleet with such tenacity, much the same…

— Aron Eisenberg

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I have two brothers, and one of them plays the guitar. I actually started playing the guitar because of him. Both of…

— Brianna Hildebrand

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak…

— Tove Lo

I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as…

— Howard Warren Buffett

With fashion, my mother was an icon, but she never lived it in the sense that she was never obsessed with fashion.…

— Lou Doillon

I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I…

— Gina Rodriguez

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things…

— Idina Menzel

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen,…

— Vidya Balan

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that…

— Suzy Menkes

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where…

— Ranbir Kapoor

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I…

— Daley Thompson

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for…

— David Villa

In terms of using my degree, I started working for YP; I signed on as director of communications.

— Nicole Johnson

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

— Duff McKagan

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

— Anthony Yarde

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started…

— Garry Kasparov

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

— Wellington Mara

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

— Paolo Maldini

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

— Daniela Ruah

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

— Joel Siegel

When I started fighting I've always thought about being a UFC champion.

— Jimi Manuwa

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

— Victor Koo

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

— Johnny Rivers

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

— DeRay Mckesson

“ Nobody,   and I mean  nobody,   ever started a revo-lution playing by the rules.” ”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.

— Joey Jordison