First Quotes

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.