Firsts Quotes

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

Master water first and then paint.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction