Firsts Quotes - Page 323

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

Sometimes I like to go outside without even checking the weather first.

When I first heard the term 'training bra,' I was freaked out. I was pretty young and I said, 'Did you just say training bra? They're training their chests? I had no idea.' See some lady, her boobs are everywhere. 'What's her deal?' Those are untrained titties.

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.