Beginnings Quotes

"Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with."

"I made my first mixtape when I was 11."

"I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun."

"I wrote my first song in the first or second grade."

"I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it."

"I started making music when I was like 14."

"I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all."

"I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager."

"When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats."

"The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis."

"So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer."

"I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18."

"'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did."

"First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!"

"I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play."

"I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'"

"My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'"

"The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'"

“When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.”

“On our first album, "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet," we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.”

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Well begun is half done."

"Every artist was first an amateur."