Firsts Quotes - Page 173

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Nothing happens... but first a dream.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.