I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.
What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.
I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
