Firsts Quotes - Page 339

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.

A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.