All Quotes

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
‐‐ Drake Bell

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.
‐‐ Greg Wise

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a cult hit that after that, I just started getting offers for horror. I think I got a little bit pigeonholed in it right off of 'May' because there was just such a large response to that film.
‐‐ Angela Bettis

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

My first husband was a serial cheater.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.
‐‐ Robert Edwards

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.
‐‐ Henrik Lundqvist

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
‐‐ Naima Adedapo

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
‐‐ Chris Pratt

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
‐‐ Kevin A. Ford

My first influence obviously was Picasso.
‐‐ David Bailey

My first influences were superhero artists.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
‐‐ Mark Waters

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
‐‐ Sabrina Carpenter

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
‐‐ Ang Lee

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
‐‐ Billy Ocean

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
‐‐ Xavier Rudd

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
‐‐ Chuck Brown

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
‐‐ Andy Garcia

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
‐‐ Madchen Amick

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

My first job, actually, was a Chicago Bulls commercial. I was a ninja. I walked with a limp for a week afterward and got paid 500 dollars 6 months later. Thanks, guys.
‐‐ Samuel Witwer

My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.
‐‐ Susan Wojcicki

My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
‐‐ Lara Giddings

My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
‐‐ Mary Barra

My first job at the bakery was jamming doughnuts.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
‐‐ Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
‐‐ Vicky McClure

My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.
‐‐ Donna Lynne Champlin

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.
‐‐ Sara Canning

My first job, I was Chuck E. at Chuck E. Cheese's.
‐‐ Timm Sharp

My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
‐‐ Rachel Zoe

My first job in acting was in a Scott Baio movie called 'I Love N.Y.' My role was Italian Girl. I sent my 8x10 to a casting agent in the booklet, 'The Ross Report,' which is where all the agents were listed before that little thing called the Internet. I read for this tiny part. I couldn't have been more excited to get it.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo