Firsts Quotes - Page 301

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!

I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No… not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

My first crush was my brothers best friend.

Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.