Mac book pro start up disc is full

my mac book pro came up with a box sayin - your start up disc is full- then went to a blue screen, I am unable to do anything at all - any suggestions ?

OSX disks need space to work. Some say 10-15% free, others lock the number at 30GB minimum (because disks vary in size). I would stick to 30 GB if I were you.
But ... immmediate problem ...
Your system does not like to operate because you likely have about 500 MB free of several 10s or 100s of GBs.
If this system is pre-Lion, you have install disks. You can buy an external drive (make it self-powered, from the wall), and install OSX on that drive using the C key at boot to re-direct to the install disks in the optical drive.
If you system is Lion ... I do not know Lion well enough to install "cold" on a blank disk.
When that system is installed, your internal drive is now "just a disk" and the amount of free space means less. You can start moving files from the internal drive to the external drive until you have enough free space for it to operate as an OSX system disk.
There are other longer-term strategies you need to address, such as "do I need a bigger system disk?", but first get your system running.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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"I already tried all of the restarts recommeneded on apple support"
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