Firsts Quotes

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron) I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)

As soon as a man has his guard up, he will not fall in love or get attached. The only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.

When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.

You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.