Firsts Quotes - Page 350

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

First of all, Mets fans despise me.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.