Top 240 Debut Quotes

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

After my debut film in 2002, I didn’t deliver any big hits.

After I made my initial debut at NXT ‘TakeOver,’ they looked at the interest and merchandise sales and decided I would be better signed full time than not.

I won an award for my debut film. However, my career went up and down after that but I kept getting work. I did whatever excited me and did not think which role or film will change my career.

Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you… they just don’t find a huge audience, because that’s how the market works.

UFC, definitely not – I do not think that is a fit for me. I am looking forward to seeing CM Punk’s UFC debut, and I hope he does really well. But it is not something that I want to do.

Right from the jump, I knew ‘Mood’ was gonna be huge because I’d never had a song debut so strong.

The Soft Pack’s self-titled full-length debut is straighter than black coffee, and twice as bitter: Frontman Matt Lamkin isn’t afraid to fly his philosophical flag and face hard realities.

My date of birth is also memorable because it happens to be the same day I heard my first narration of my debut film.

There are few options that come by you and you get selected for when it comes to making a debut.

I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!

I am thrilled to debut in Kannada alongside Puneeth Rajkumar. I know of him and what a big star he is.

The ’70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That’s the goal I’m shooting for. When they revive ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ for the seven-hundredth time.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan’s amazing debut novel, ‘The Lifeboat,’ when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It’s such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

‘Love Sonia’ will always be very close to my heart, not only because this is my debut but also because I got an opportunity to work with Demi Moore.

I don’t think you can sum up how it feels, to come on and score on my debut.

I didn’t see myself playing regularly at right-back for Manchester United or making my England debut in that position.

Before and after my debut, I’ve helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.

‘Love You Hamesha’ was never my debut film. I just did a special appearance in it.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

My debut was in a final. I was not nervous. I scored a goal, and I won my first title. In all my debuts, I’ve always been able to score goals, and I have come to Madrid to stay and score many goals.

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern – or, dare we say, post-modern – family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, ‘The Kids Are All Right.’

I’m especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.

For me, you could say my big West End debut was ‘Cursed Child,’ but I’m in my 40s, and it’s like, ‘When is that beginning?’

The first film is very important, and one needs to choose the right kind of debut project. I also think the second film is equally important, as it needs to be a notch higher.

By the time I made my international debut Tendulkar was already being counted among the best batsmen in the world. Most bowlers knew that his was the crucial wicket in an Indian batting line-up that boasted of many talented batsmen.

I have always been a fan of the Guillemots. Fyfe Dangerfield, the lead singer, has recently produced a debut solo album called ‘Fly Yellow Moon’; he has the most amazing voice ever.

I’ve waited for the day my debut album is released my entire life, so naturally I’ve designed it to be listened to from start to finish – so every song flows into each other in a way that tells a sonic story.

I am nervous about how my debut novel will be received, because there’s always that feeling that somebody might say something negative. I say I won’t read the reviews, but I probably will. But just because somebody says something negative, I don’t have to believe it.

When I made my First-Class debut, my first spell was of 10 overs. So I was always used to bowling lot of overs in Ranji Trophy, which always helps.

Although I am a Telugu girl, I never felt that my debut in Telugu was delayed. I always wanted to be part of a good script, and I am pleased that ‘Goodachari’ hit the right notes.

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Doing ‘Kucch Luv Jaisaa’ was like a debut. There were never any apprehensions.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, ‘California,’ somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was ‘On the Town’ at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

Obviously, making my debut at such a young age, people put a lot of pressure on you.

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut – but it didn’t quite happen after that!

I don’t know why I chose to make my debut with ‘Dil Maange More.’ The film had three leading ladies – Tulip Joshi, Ayesha Takia and me – opposite Shahid Kapoor. I was fresh to Bollywood at that time because I had just come back from England and had no clue about hero-heroine dynamics in India.

I am making my television debut with ‘Dream Girl,’ and hence, this role is very important for me. The uniqueness of my character prompted me to take up this show, how she cuts corners to get her work done, and she has a solution to every problem.

At every turn, Molly Antopol’s gorgeous debut story collection, ‘The UnAmericans,’ is firing on multiple cylinders.

Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind – or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.

A few of Ellison’s short stories from the 1940s and 1950s were widely anthologized over the years. After a while, it became generally known that he was at work on another novel. Though he remained aware ever afterward of the authority ‘Invisible Man’ gave to him, no second novel followed his brilliant debut in 1952.

‘Five, Six, Seven, Nate!’ opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in ‘E.T.: The Musical.’

In ‘Burrraah,’ I play a teacher whose aim is to reform a bunch of rowdy boys. My character is very interesting and I chose this film for a Punjabi debut because of its story, script, screenplay and director, Sagar Sharma. I love the way he narrates a story.

When I made my debut, I had that weird one-off at ‘Battleground’ where I was, like, Sasha’s partner. And that was an amazing night.

It is a thing of dreams to make your European debut for your boyhood club. Especially to make it with a goal was very special for me.

Firoz Nadiadwala is a close friend; he was the first person who asked me to direct a film for him. I would like to have him as my producer for my directorial debut.

When I heard Bjork’s debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

My debut album, ‘Forget the World,’ is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff’s small son in ‘Macbeth,’ I had played a number of parts, from ‘Twelfth Night’s Viola to ‘The Merchant Of Venice’s Portia’.

What’s exciting is that after all these years, I have made my Bollywood debut. And the reach of the Hindi film industry is huge.

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album ‘An Awesome Wave,’ and I’m still riding the high: they’re the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.