All Quotes

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann's Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took the part, I'd never even heard of 'Doctor Who.' No one warned me that the kisses would be a big deal.
‐‐ Daphne Ashbrook

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.
‐‐ John Lahr

I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.
‐‐ John Lloyd Young

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
‐‐ Noel Redding

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.
‐‐ Trevor Noah

I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.
‐‐ Ali Liebegott

I was the first in my family to graduate college.
‐‐ Duke Johnson

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.
‐‐ Heidi Murkoff

I was the first independent to walk in with a documentary.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
‐‐ Brian Skerry

I was the first judge in the 'Indian Idol' format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian 'X Factor,' the press would ask, 'Who is Simon Cowell?' And I said 'Why don't you ask Simon Cowell, 'Who is Sonu Nigam?'
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
‐‐ Jamie Farr

I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
‐‐ Dorothy Malone

I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg

I was the first one in my family to go to college.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
‐‐ Gallagher

I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
‐‐ Jack Whitehall

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

I was the first person to go to university from my family.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I've learned through YouTube, if it's not race, it will be sexism, if it's not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.
‐‐ Norm Crosby

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.
‐‐ Sid Bernstein

I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring.
‐‐ Keegan Bradley

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.
‐‐ Jim McKay

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
‐‐ Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
‐‐ Robert Mankoff

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.
‐‐ Davey Havok

I was the ghost-faced killer for Halloween in the third or fourth grade.
‐‐ Rory Culkin

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.
‐‐ Melissa Marr

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
‐‐ Vera Wang

I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.
‐‐ Izabella Scorupco

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
‐‐ Dallas Roberts