All Quotes

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
‐‐ Paula Fox

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
‐‐ Vash Young

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.
‐‐ Jaime Ray Newman

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
‐‐ Adam McKay

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

My first kiss was at a sleep-away camp, and it was very awkward and over quickly. And that was that. It was just the weirdest thing, and I thought, 'That was it? Get out of here!' I didn't even know his last name.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.
‐‐ Conor Maynard

My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why?'
‐‐ Tyler Blackburn

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
‐‐ Jencarlos Canela

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

My first language is Gaelic.
‐‐ Enya

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
‐‐ Al Pacino

My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.
‐‐ Donald Bren

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
‐‐ Justin Chadwick

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
‐‐ Parker Posey

My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
‐‐ Jane Lynch

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
‐‐ Judd Nelson

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

My first love is producing.
‐‐ Timbaland

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.
‐‐ Linford Christie

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
‐‐ Missy Elliott

My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
‐‐ Bria Skonberg

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
‐‐ Carl Weathers

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

My first love was basketball.
‐‐ Stan Smith

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

My first love was the sound of guitar.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'
‐‐ Ken Stott

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'
‐‐ Michael Keaton

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
‐‐ Gale Harold

My first marriage ended after 24 years.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
‐‐ Jean Seberg

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.
‐‐ NeNe Leakes

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.
‐‐ Robert Glasper

My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents love to dance. They love to throw parties and dance, so there was a lot Latin music in the house.
‐‐ Cyrille Aimee

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.
‐‐ Mike Nichols