The First Thing Quotes

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen

Gay, Different, Friends

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
Larry Hagman

Good, Best, Diet

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
John le Carre

Laugh, Him, Down

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
Michael Sheen

Life, Care, Through

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.
Tom Colicchio

Experience, Personal, Chef

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Ina Garten

Morning, Pleasure, Garden

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Thought, Afraid, Fact

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
Mia Wasikowska

Two, Excited, Role

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
Keith Thibodeaux

Person, Different, Her

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
Robert Carlyle

Life, Time, Mother

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
Tony Kushner

Mother, Woman, Country

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
Craig Bruce

Anarchy, Declared

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
Marion Cotillard

Work, Moment, Possible

I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
Zac Efron

Time, Great, Girl

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
Shane Warne

Him, Same, Worry

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
Tony Dungy

Wanted, Sure, Granted

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
Ice T

Work, Great, Hard

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?
Hulk Hogan

Work, Business, Else

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
Sally Field

Juliet, Scenes, Romeo

If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion

Rights, Internet, Million

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
Angus Young

Done, Pretty, Easy

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.
Julie Bowen

Good, Running, Discovered

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
Ray Dalio

Future, Hold, Asset

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
Ewan McGregor

Through, Start, Year

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Pain, Become, Far

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer

Lose, Older, Memory

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals

Life, Purpose, Purposes

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
Alexander Wang

Mom, Shoes, Ask

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Guillermo del Toro

Love, Monsters, Identify

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
Gail Simmons

Live, Person, Try

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