All Quotes

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
‐‐ Lily James

My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
‐‐ Zendaya

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.
‐‐ Rick Danko

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.
‐‐ Paul Dano

My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.
‐‐ Juliet Rylance

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.
‐‐ Mary Elizabeth Winstead

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
‐‐ Victoria Pratt

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.
‐‐ Kina Grannis

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.
‐‐ Jake Kasdan

My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
‐‐ Charlie Worsham

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

My first playpen was a cardboard box.
‐‐ Michael Lee-Chin

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
‐‐ Bob Gunton

My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.
‐‐ Clive Standen

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
‐‐ Bob Menendez

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
‐‐ Monica Denise Brown

My first priority is time with my family.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
‐‐ Iain Glen

My first priority is trying to protect my family.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
‐‐ Clarke Peters

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
‐‐ Jessie Mueller

My first professional job was a Pete Bowker series for ITV called 'Monroe.' I played a Junior Cardiac Surgeon called Mullery.
‐‐ Andrew Gower

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
‐‐ John Barrowman

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.
‐‐ Robert Battle

My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.
‐‐ Sean Bean

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.
‐‐ Roy Conli

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
‐‐ David Lee

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.
‐‐ Robert Webb

My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
‐‐ Fergus Henderson

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien setting.
‐‐ Eric Flint

My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
‐‐ Karen Bender

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn

My first Ramones show was at a small club in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. It was a transformative experience, even though my memories are a little blurry, since someone kicked me in the head halfway through the show, probably during 'Beat on the Brat.'
‐‐ Derf

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
‐‐ Myron Scholes

My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well.
‐‐ Logan Marshall-Green