First Quotes · Page 75

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

First six overs are important because if you put runs on board, it will take the pressure off the other batsmen.

— Prithvi Shaw

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

— Abhijit Banerjee

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

— Dwayne Johnson

Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.

— Robert Trujillo

I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.

— Preneet Kaur

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

— Jim Boeheim

I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years…

— David Labrava

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right…

— Patricia MacLachlan

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from…

— Kelly Asbury

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to…

— Dave Reichert

Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you…

— Charles Duhigg

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about…

— John Negroponte

The weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film -…

— Robert Osborne

Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up…

— Tyra Banks

I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment…

— Waite Hoyt

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I…

— William Moseley

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17-…

— Dan Stevens

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village.…

— Michael Specter

The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy…

— Matt McGorry

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you…

— Dan O'Brien

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

— Tony Bennett

Do I regret saying business should not be first before winning? Absolutely not.

— Chris Sale

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

— Nana Mouskouri

I liked Eddie Van Halen, when he first came out, because he was doing something original.

— Marky Ramone

Eazy-E was the person to take me on my first tour, and there was nobody telling him to do it.

— Too Short

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Swimming is the root of surfing. The first board you ever have is your body.

— Laird Hamilton

My first triumph was turning Elton John's 'Benny and the Jets' into a gospel tune.

— Kirk Franklin

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

When I first started out, all I thought about was my own acting.

— Son Ye-jin

Double Dhamaal' is my first family entertainer and I liked acting in it because it has lots of gags and comedy.

— Mallika Sherawat

I got promoted to co-anchor of the early-morning show 'Fox & Friends First' in 2013.

— Ainsley Earhardt

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

— Robert Dallek

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

— Orhan Pamuk

Euro 2012 was my first title, yet most of the other guys have already won plenty of silverware.

— Jordi Alba

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

— Smokepurpp