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.

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.