Firsts Quotes - Page 349

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.

For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.

For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.