Quotes about Starting at the Bottom

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top. Votes: 3

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder. Votes: 3

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill. Votes: 1

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. Votes: 1

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them. Votes: 1

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up. Votes: 1

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. Votes: 1

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul. Votes: 1

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay. Votes: 1

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it. Votes: 1

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. Votes: 1

I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises. Votes: 1

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I'm like, 'Really? I came to grad school; I'm going to do the 'Respect for Acting'?' And I realized the importance of that, because it was really to just get you to get rid of everything. Get rid of everything you've learned and just start from the bottom up. Votes: 1