All Quotes

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.
‐‐ Robert Adams

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'
‐‐ James Callis

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
‐‐ Tyler Perry

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
‐‐ Kat Graham

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
‐‐ Chandra Wilson

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
‐‐ Frank Iero

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.
‐‐ Soulja Boy

My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
‐‐ Sarah Pinborough

My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.
‐‐ Bobby Moynihan

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
‐‐ Stark Sands

My first solo was in church when I was five.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.
‐‐ Kevin Frazier

My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.
‐‐ Chrissie Fit

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
‐‐ Kate Micucci

My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy. When I used to battle people every day, I had to go hard. If someone went harder than me, they left with the win. I haven't lost since I was 12 years old.
‐‐ Meek Mill

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
‐‐ Linda Evans

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.
‐‐ Sarah Kay

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
‐‐ Ivan Reitman

My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
‐‐ Emily Oster

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.
‐‐ Michael Pena

My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon as I could walk. I always wanted to be an actress, not a mother or housewife.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

My first thought is always of light.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!
‐‐ Marie Lu

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!
‐‐ Luanne Rice

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.
‐‐ Jonathan Bennett

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.
‐‐ Dash Mihok

My first time doing music was on acoustic guitar. I had a friend from Texas who taught me so much country, I entered a few country competitions. But eventually, I got tired of it.
‐‐ Shamir

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'
‐‐ Scott Ellis

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.
‐‐ Joe Mande

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.
‐‐ Li Bingbing

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
‐‐ Garry Shandling

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
‐‐ Kate Bush

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.
‐‐ Rita Ora

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!
‐‐ Marisa Miller

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
‐‐ Dexter Fletcher