Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me.

I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had butterflies. You know, the Obamas were sitting out there, the Supreme Court, Maya Angelou, and Desmond Tutu for God's sake, all in the front row.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

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

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.

Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Success only hurts the first time.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.