I did my first film Junglee and it became a hit. That film was the first one to bring the real colour on the big screen, which was Eastmancolor.
Let me tell you, when you’re pregnant with the first one, it’s great of course, all new and ‘Yay!’ With the second one it’s still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.
The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.
I hadn’t seen any people like me on TV before, and I definitely didn’t want to be the first one. I didn’t want that responsibility on my head.
My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
‘You’re fired’ was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I’m looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression ‘You’re fired.’
I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.
I only thought I’d get one arm done at first. One arm turned into the other arm. Then I started tattooing my lower arms. I remember saying, ‘Mom, don’t worry, I’m never going to do anything on my neck.’ Then I went to my neck and my chest and my legs, and I kept on progressing from there.
You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
The film ‘Back to the Future’ certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it’s gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.
I don’t look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.
One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.
I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I’d go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in ’67, the first one. In ’68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.
Some of my team-mates in the Under-18s used to play ‘Call of Duty’ and they told me I should jump on it. I have played it ever since, for my first one or two years I played it pretty much ever day, I was mad about it.
I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument – the first one, of course, was drums – till I was about nine years old.
I started in this racket in the early ’70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
I’ve written, like, 450 comics, and ‘Secret Six’ was the first one I’ve had ship late, ever. So it took a lot to make that happen. So we had a little bit of a stop-and-start, and then we had Convergence, and then Issue No. 2 of ‘Secret Six’.
The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt, and I also want it to be a project that is very personal to me, for my first one.
The best dumpster meal I has was the first one I had.
Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn’t like the first one.
Everyone’s disappointed when they don’t feel like they play well or they make a mistake. I’m the first one to hold my hand up and try and rectify that in training or the next game.
Any project that I put out, I never want it to sound like the first one. It can have some vibes or stuff that matches, but I want it to be growth, progression, and you can’t be comfortable when you’re growing. If it feels good and it sounds good, it’s good.
I’m a big fan of the first one, but one of the first horror films I ever saw on my own was ‘Halloween II.’ That was my first real experience of Halloween as a concept because in Sweden in the Eighties, we didn’t celebrate Halloween.
You forget everything that happened with the first one. Like, at first, I was like, ‘How do I swaddle a baby again? Can I hold her like this?’ It’s like your brain is kind of melting. When you’re in the hospital, you’re like, ‘They really shouldn’t let us go home yet.’
I love originating shows and originating songs – there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. ‘Brink of Life’ was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery – I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.
If there was a basketball rehab, I’d be the first one admitted.
That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.
The stuff I did in ‘Rescue Me’ was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then ‘Person of Interest’ came along. They’re all new experiences.
And, again, I’m the first one to say that I’m not going be successful at everything.
If Syria wants to be part of the international community, there are some conditions that they have to meet. And the first one is to stop embracing the terrorism.
If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you’d probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ contestant to win £1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won £1 million on Chris Evans’ show ‘TFI Friday.’
It’s funny that everyone talks about Women’s Revolution and I’m the first one to be behind all of them and be with them, but you can’t forget that behind every Women’s Revolution, there was a pack of women before them and before every single generation fought for something.
In the acting community in New York we call ‘Law & Order’ ‘grad school,’ because everyone eventually does a ‘Law & Order.’ My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character’s name.
I actually didn’t own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.
I love doing it. It’s great. I love doing the sessions, ’cause you’re kind of like in a different band every day. I used to do them all the time. I think my first one was John Wetton from U.K. and Asia and all that stuff, King Crimson. It was so great. Really a lot of fun.
I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I’m also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I’m able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.
The B.J. Penn fight was the first one where I ever took damage. I got caught coming in. I got hit hard and I never recovered. He picked me apart the rest of the fight. After that, I still didn’t take any damage until I fought Martin Kampmann.
I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it’s the first one that white people played.
If I didn’t play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I’d gone wrong and give great advice.
I am the first one to believe that if a player is happy in what he is doing he performs much more.
It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don’t think they’re intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.
My mentally for my character is you have to be first, better, or different. I know that I’m not the best at everything; in fact, I’m not the best at a lot of things, so I’m going to be different, or I’m going to be the first one to do it.
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we’d assign each person a verse, you know: ‘I’m going to do the first one. You go for the second one.’ And then sometimes you’d wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.
Biggest influence is my parents. It’s funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My dad was not ready to let me play yet. She definitely was the one who allowed me to do it. Obviously my dad taught me to throw and be a quarterback.
