I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

By the time a meal I'm preparing rolls around, I'm usually so full from tasting that I'm not hungry any more.

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

By the time that I left Porto I had a few offers, and I probably chose the club that I shouldn't have gone to.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

I definitely would like to run my own businesses by the time I'm 27, maybe, and then come away from the spotlight.

It took time, and it happened gradually, but by the time I started college, I felt truly comfortable with my body.

By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

You become friends with someone when you're 16, but by the time you get to 20, you're a completely different person.

Eventually, I think I'll probably end up at centre-half. By the time I get to 28 or 29, I imagine I'll be a defender.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

By the time the season's over, I'm ready to get back in the weight room and start training as far as getting stronger.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

By the time I finished the first series, 'Marvel Universe vs. Punisher,' I knew that there was a lot more story to tell.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

By the time I'm done with my show, I'm in Never-Never Land. Usually I leave the room for the auction and try to chill out.

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