The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: ‘OK, if you didn’t have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?’ That’s kind of how I’m starting to think.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

I’m not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to ‘play’ sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

I can’t tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, ‘Why don’t you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?’

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that’s what I really loved about ‘King Kong.’

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it’s going to be successful.

My feet ain’t got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller’s got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn’t get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn’t want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn’t.

Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I’ve found something that I feel I, as ‘Michael,’ can be as confident in as ‘Johnny’ was on the stage. It’s great being part of the creative process. You’re right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through...

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it’s generally a bad film.

For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Every marriage is weird! That’s what it is – we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: “What if?” and “What next?” (A third question, “What now?”, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it’s more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if “X” happened? That’s how you start.

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter – and that was where it began.

The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water.

We just bought a new house, so my wife’s been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.

When you’re a child you’re able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you’re around. I wasn’t conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

There’s a lot of stuff you’ve gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it’s the hot thing to do.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn’t really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

Today is tomorrow of yesterday.. a better day.. to start with.

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it’s actually not a terrible place to start.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don’t support you any more.

‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, ‘You start this film off and you end this film. I don’t want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?’ He was dead serious.

Rappers make what’s in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn’t understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn’t see. It’s amazing. It’s a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. ‘Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!’ All right! It calls for celebration.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds – film and science.

I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you’re tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

When I started working in fashion, I didn’t have money to buy photographs, so I’d Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I’d start a collection, I’d sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don’t let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Got an idea to start”, “Thinking to start” and “Making a commitment to start” is one aspect of life.Actually “Starting” what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

It’s nice, because after you’ve worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you’re capable of.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.