First Quotes

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The first time I met Michael, we saw each other on a TV show.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.