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I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays. -- Kit Harington
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. -- Anna Camp
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much. -- Vonda Shepard
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school. -- Sean Maher
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing. -- Jamie Blackley
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard. -- Anna Kendrick
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building. -- Chris Hardwick
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. -- William Goldman
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. -- Leslie Cockburn
When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt. -- George Clooney
I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job. -- Bo Bice
When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary. -- Kathryn Minshew
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency. -- Christopher Fowler
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV. -- Nick Kroll
I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs. -- Justin Long
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find. -- Ferran Adria
When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want. -- Sayed Badreya
When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder. -- Janet Montgomery
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up. -- Aaron Patzer
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. -- Paul Thomas Anderson

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