All Quotes

My films, no one else will do.
‐‐ Mira Nair

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.
‐‐ Leos Carax

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
‐‐ Bill Plympton

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.
‐‐ Tina St. John

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
‐‐ Randy Quaid

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
‐‐ Frank Lane

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.
‐‐ Pud Galvin

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.
‐‐ Josie Maran

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.
‐‐ Roger Rees

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
‐‐ John Mahoney

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
‐‐ Jessica Raine

My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
‐‐ Brie Larson

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
‐‐ Jaclyn Smith

My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from 'Measure for Measure,' which were tough dramatic scenes. And then 'Taming of the Shrew,' which required comedic timing. And that's the kind of stuff I love.
‐‐ Dave Bautista

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
‐‐ Malachi Throne

My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!
‐‐ Jerry Hall

My first album came out in 1979.
‐‐ Teena Marie

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
‐‐ Bjork

My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.
‐‐ Dionne Bromfield

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.
‐‐ John Legend

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

My first album is playful.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.
‐‐ Alicia Villarreal

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
‐‐ Halsey

My first album was completed in three months.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
‐‐ Yael Naim

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
‐‐ Chris Brown

My first album was The Doobie Brothers... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
‐‐ John Updike

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.
‐‐ Rhea Perlman

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
‐‐ Magic Johnson

My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.
‐‐ Nick D'Aloisio

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
‐‐ Emilio Ambasz