The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
‐‐ Michael Jai White
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi
The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
‐‐ Peter Berg
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
‐‐ Jack Reynor
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni
The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.
‐‐ Denis Leary
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
‐‐ James Gray
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
‐‐ Pam Grier
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
‐‐ David Walton
The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.
‐‐ Casey Affleck
The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.
‐‐ Conor Oberst
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
‐‐ Matt Dillon
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
‐‐ Leo Kottke
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
‐‐ Robert Heller
The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
‐‐ Eden Robinson
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
‐‐ George Lopez
The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.
‐‐ Bill Burr
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
‐‐ Brian May
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
‐‐ Bobby Robson
The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
‐‐ Andrew Bird
The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
‐‐ Johann Heinrich Lambert
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
‐‐ Henry Charles Carey
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
‐‐ Mark Twain
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
‐‐ Ferdinand de Saussure
The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
‐‐ Eric Clapton
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
‐‐ Nassau William Senior
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
‐‐ Millicent Fawcett
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
‐‐ Max Muller
The first painting I remember selling was 'Panthera.' I made it while I was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the museum actually purchased it directly from me.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway
The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.
‐‐ Shukla Bose
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
‐‐ Aaron Paul
The first PC that I actually bought myself was a Toshiba Papman in 1985. This model was one of the very first laptops; I remember that it was a revolution at the time!
‐‐ Francois-Henri Pinault
The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
‐‐ Roy Wood
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
‐‐ Isaiah Berlin
The first perk of theater is the girls.
‐‐ James Spader
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
‐‐ John Foxe