“I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.” ThinkingShouldTryingFirstsReadyFirst TimeCamerasRehearsal Author:Oliver Stone
“I think women need to have a lobby. I feel that women need to speak out. The first time a man hits you is one too many times and you need to do something about it. That something about it is walking out that door and seeking for help and never looking back.” ThinkingMenNeedsFeelsFirstsHelpingSpeakDoorsWalkingFirst TimeSeekingLooking BackSpeaks OutWalking Out Author:LaToya Jackson
“I have made mention of something I've found incredible a lot of times. I'm gonna remind you of it again. A TIME magazine cover back in the mid-1990s. The cover story on that issue of TIME magazine had the following headline Shock: Men and Women are Actually Born Different." When I saw that the first time, I was astounded. I cite it often, because I need to ask you a question: What must you think, what must you believe if you come across research that tells you men and women are born different?” IfsThinkingMenNeedsFirstsBelieveMadeDifferentStoriesAsksFoundBornIssuesSawsResearchMen And WomenFirst TimeIncrediblesFollowingMagazinesShockHeadlinesCitingAstoundedTime MagazineMagazine Covers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.” ThinkingWayShouldFirstsStillsIdeasPaintingSucceedFirst TimeDrawingMessClayStarting OverRework Author:Warren MacKenzie
“John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."” ThinkingFirstsBigsSpeechGoodnessFirst TimeTasksGuaranteesGraciousInauguration Author:Barack Obama
“I remember watching 21 Jump Street and thinking I'm attracted to Johnny Depp - "What are these feelings?" I remember all of this, the first time you feel things. I mean, yes, boys in class, whatever, but to specifically go back to those experiences, it's kind of amazing.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsKindMeanFeelingsRememberClassBoysStreetsFirst Time Author:June Diane Raphael
“There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about writing for the first time that if you think you have it, go for it because there are people that achieve it and don't have it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingFirstsStuffWrittenAchieveFirst TimeExcited Author:Josh Prince
“If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingFirstsFilmAbilityRoomsMagicPerceptionFirst TimeShootingEditingAbility To See Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.” ThinkingDifferentDreamArtistCreativeFirst TimeLimitationCreative Process Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess
“I would only listen to certain things, like a lot of teenagers do. But the Tragically Hip is a ribbon that's been with me pretty much my entire musical life. Every mix tape I ever made had at least one Hip song on it. Right from the outset I feel like Gord Downie built so much room into his songs. There was so much space in them that he created. He made me think of songwriting as full of boundless possibilities in a way that - well, that a lot of songwriters do, but that was the first time I thought a song could really contain multitudes.” ThinkingSongPossibilityFirst TimeMusicalTeenagerSongwriting Author:John K. Samson
“I guess travelling that kind of long distance and travelling at such a slow pace, it wasn't something that I was thinking about when I was inside of the cistern, but when I started hearing the music played back to me for the first time by an ensemble, it totally brought me back, immediately, to memories of sailing. And it really became apparent that this was some sort of a through line in my life that I was excited to explore more.” ThinkingKindLongMemoriesFirst TimeDistanceExcitedSailingLong Distance Author:Jherek Bischoff
“It's one of the reasons why Spider-Man: Homecoming is so exciting. Because it's a new genre for us, a new character, the first time that Spider-Man is in our cinematic universe and you can see what he was meant to be in the comics. He's such a young teenager in comparison to these other heroes. But I think, because we're film fans who go and see everything, it's much more natural that you're inspired by other work. And then of course that influences your work, and the way you make films.” ThinkingReasonCharacterFilmUniverseNaturalInfluenceHeroFirst TimeExcitingInspiredTeenagerComparisonMeant To BeHomecoming Author:Kevin Feige
“I think social media has allowed the players to be able to say things that maybe didn't come out right the first time and say what they really meant. I think that it keeps people fair and honest.” PeopleThinkingPlayerHonestFirst TimeSocial MediaReally Mean Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.
“What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.” ThinkingFirst TimeAuthenticityWhat IfOdysseyOdysseus Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record. I wonder what I was thinking when I was trying to say a particular thing. I hear some of the weird little nuances in the recording; I can hear what the room sounded like. I remember what it smelled like. I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla's bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, "Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play."” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingRememberSongEnjoyWonderFirst TimeRealizationAirplaneBedroomMy ThoughtsGuitarist Author:Ben Gibbard
“The first time I met Harrison, I think, was at the very first read through of the script. As anyone would be, I was a bit nervous before meeting him. I mean, it's Han Solo, so it was quite crazy. But once you get to know him, he really is such an amazing person. He's such an amazing actor as well. As I said before, his presence really does get the best out of you as an actor.” ThinkingMeanCrazyFirst TimeMeetingsNervous Author:Asa Butterfield
“This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.” ThinkingKindWarEnoughColdFirst TimeImportanceVery GoodFlyingPropagandaRevelationsGood EnoughCooperationSkepticismCold War Author:Leroy Chiao
“Tom Hart, David Lasky, Ed Brubaker, Megan Kelso, Julie Doucet. These people lived comics. The people in Seattle got together every week to draw and critique each other's work. Outside of art school, I never did that. When I came back from that trip, I had a physical, palpable sense of being self-conscious. It was the first time I'd drawn where I was like, "Holy cow, people are going to read this. They're going to like it, or they might not like it. Maybe I really should make my drawings a little more solid, or really think about what I'm doing. Maybe this shouldn't be so sloppy."” PeopleThinkingArtSchoolTogetherWeekHolyFirst TimeWork OutCritique Author:John Porcellino
“I'm interested in cinematic realism. I think there is a rich potential to bring to audiences people they haven't seen before, that they are discovering a bit like how we discover people in life for the first time. There's an authenticity that can't be denied.” PeopleThinkingAudienceRichFirst TimeAuthenticity Author:Matthew Porterfield
“I think I was six when I discovered the song "White Wedding" by Billy Idol, and that was the first time I thought I had discovered something on my own. It's the first song I remember hearing and liking without anyone telling me to like it.” ThinkingRememberSongFirst Time Author:Lydia Loveless
“I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.” ThinkingDoneFallFirst TimeFalling In Love Author:Atom Egoyan
“I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.” ThinkingMomentsFirst TimeIncrediblesFlood Author:Maya Lin
“When I moved to New York a year and a half ago, I feel like I really was able to access my sense of humor and personality through my work for maybe the first time. The city has a really nurturing, positive kind of reinforcement...for young artists. Nothing is considered weird. Nothing is frowned upon. It's sort of a free-for-all in terms of experimentation, and I think that's a really great environment for someone who wants to work in a multimedia modality.” ThinkingKindArtistTermEnvironmentPersonalityFirst TimeMovedSense Of HumorReally GreatNurturingExperimentation Author:Chloe Wise
“I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch House of Cards compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom! She's honestly that good, and, also, her character is the exact opposite of who she is in real life.” ThinkingRealCharacterFilmHouseStrangeMomHabitFirst TimeMy MomHonestlyReal Life Author:Dylan Frances Penn
“I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I'd completely lost myself. It's kind of funny now that people think I've completely changed myself for Marilyn Manson, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, "This is who I am and this is who I've always wanted to be, and I'm finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be."” PeopleThinkingTryingKindChangedFirst TimeLet MeKillingManson Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do that in Manhattan. I was 19 years old the first time I got published and paid. I think it was a hundred bucks. I stared at my name on the check for 20 minutes.” ThinkingEnoughFirst TimeDrunkApartment Author:Nick Tosches
“Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.” ThinkingHelpingAgeCreativityDisciplineBlessingFirst TimeOkayMovedDancingWork OutAwakeningI RealizedRealizationDancerHelp MeBalletAdulthoodDisguiseGoing To WorkFrustratingModelingBallet Dancer Author:Diane Kruger
“Making Superman was so hard. We were a year over schedule. We were there a year and a half, the first time. And in a year and a half, you go through everything you go through in a life. So you can't really go, "Oh, it must have been fun to work with Chris Reeve." In a year and a half, you bonded like a family, so you know someone far too well to think something as simplistic as "Oh, it's just fun." You know their secrets. I mean, it was everything. It was truly - it's a cliché to say we were family, but we really were.” ThinkingMeanFunSecretFirst Time Author:Margot Kidder
“I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a guy who did this for his first time, he didn't do too bad,' and some people will be like, 'Rich Franklin sucks.' It doesn't matter what you do, you will always have people on every side of that spectrum, so I would imagine for me it wouldn't be any different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentGuyImagineFirst TimeFranklinGreat Job Author:Rich Franklin
“Actors always direct themselves. A good actor shows up onset ready, especially in television, and you've done your homework and you know your character. The director may have some variation on what you're thinking or they may have a different interpretation of the scene. So you come prepared to shoot and you've given yourself notes. In television, it may be the first time you're meeting this director and you've been living in this character's skin for a couple of years. It's always great to have fresh perspective and fresh insight, but no one knows your character better than you do.” ThinkingDifferentDoneCharacterPerspectiveCoupleSceneFirst TimeDirectSkinsMeetingsInsightHomework Author:Noah Emmerich
“If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.” ThinkingTryingFirst TimeMeetingsPhenomenonPersona Author:Mary Gaitskill
“My first really big job was an advertorial for Italian Vogue. I cried on set because I didn't know what to do. That was two weeks after being in Milan for the very first time. I think I had one or two test shoots there.” ThinkingWeekFirst TimeItalianVogue Author:Amber Valletta
“I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class. I had an essay that I was supposed to write, and, instead of writing an essay, I wrote a song. So, I was playing this song in class, and I literally turned the color of this sweater that I was wearing, completely red. I think it was that feeling of challenging everything in me, my introverted personality. Like, "This is what you have to do. It doesn't matter if you do it wrong, you just have to do it."” ThinkingWritingFeelingsProblemSongChallengesPersonalityFirst TimeEssaysBlushingIntroverted Author:Caitlin Rose
“Tobin Bell wasn't obligated to do the second Saw film but he wanted to. I think they brought me into this film because there's a first time director, and my reputation is one of an actor who's there for the betterment of the project. I'm not there to better myself. I'm there to bring all my resources to the project to make it as good as it can be. In the end, that makes everyone look good.” ThinkingFilmFirst TimeReputation Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“I think the work is the same in Indie films or blockbuster. It's just a difference when you do all the publicity. It's like another job. I remember the first time I did The Dreamers. I went to Venice; quite a good amount of publicity, a lot of round-tables and TV. I was just not expecting that. I thought I was going to visit Venice, but actually no.” ThinkingRememberFilmFirst TimeDreamerExpecting Author:Eva Green
“Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm the one you stopped your nomadic life for." It's one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it's another thing altogether when you stop having sex with others when you marry. So the marital commitment becomes, "I must be really special. With me, you no longer think you can find better next door." Romantic consumerism is thinking you can't find better, younger or newer.” ThinkingEconomySpecialCommitmentFirst TimeConsumerismNarcissistic Author:Esther Perel
“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.” PeopleThinkingChildrenImportantRunningMovingFirst TimeGardenOur ChildrenGrandchildrenIntimidatedChildren And Grandchildren Author:Emmanuel Macron
“I think things go wrong when there's not a very specific plan and specific emotional roadmap. You need to know what a scene needs to get across, and what story point that needs to be advanced, whether it's discovering someone for the first time or whether it's seeing a relationship get strained. What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything.” ThinkingEnvironmentEmotionalSceneFirst Time Author:Paul Feig
“The first time you have a little success, some good feedback, you start imagining having a career, or being a professional musician. But while being creative, or doing creative work, is very natural for humans, to think of that as your main occupation, that's a really important transition.” ThinkingImportantNaturalCreativeMusicianFirst TimeBe CreativeFeedbackCreative Work Author:Erik Wiegand
“Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have to get it. If you don't get it the first time you may not understand. If you like repetition, analysis, explanation, you probably won't like my books.” ThinkingWritingMindBookSometimesFirst TimeExplanationRepetition Author:James Salter
“Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings.” PeopleThinkingWorldKidsEnjoyActingFameFirst TimeExcitingTheatreParcel Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“A lot of the medical imagery has to do with my own biography. I had open heart surgery, I had knee replacements, I had a hiatal hernia, etc. Every time you go for surgery, you get a whole spectrum of imaging. Of course, I've been doing research in imaging technology across the board for close to twenty years. When you think about it, medical imaging is actually quite new. The first major medical image was the x-ray in 1895. That was the first time you got imaging of anything that's in the bodily interior.” ThinkingHeartTechnologyFirst TimeMedicalSurgeryImageryOpen Heart Author:Don Ihde
“I don't believe that the economy has changed people's thinking politically in Alberta. However, obviously we elected a brand new government for the first time, some people say, in 44 years. It's actually the first time in over 70 years, because the previous government, prior to the PCs, was really just PCs with a different name. And I think what that did, it doesn't suddenly mean that Tom Mulcair is going to win a whack of seats here in Alberta, but I think it did open Albertans' eyes to the fact that, you know, something different is possible and we can do something different.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMeanDifferentEyeWinningEconomyChangedFirst Time Author:Naheed Nenshi
“We just met for the first time and David Byrne was like, "Hey, you want to sing on this song?" and I was like, "Yes, I do want to sing on that song." He's the most legendary dude but I wasn't thinking about how he was a legend when rehearsing. I was just thinking, "Wow, this guy really knows what he wants in his music." And that ended up being the vibe, like "Oh, you wanna try that?" "Yeah, that sounds great!"” ThinkingTryingGuySongFirst TimeLegendaryHey You Author:Justin Vernon
“What you aren't ready for being the first time in space - on an emotional and intellectual level - is how looking down at Earth will profoundly affect you. Over the long term, it has changed the way I think about planet Earth. When you go around the planet and look down, you think about the fact that this is the cradle of humanity, that this is a place where seven billion people, 200 countries, live side by side, that we share this place and there's nowhere else to go.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryEarthHumanityTermShareChangedEmotionalIntellectualFirst TimeSevenLong TermPlanet Earth Author:Marc Garneau
“We were discovered by Don Fury; he was the first record producer who discovered us and essentially plucked us out of the rough. But I think in another way, we were discovered when we discovered each other, right before we started high school. We were 12 and 13. I don't want to speak for Justin Beck, but that's a big moment, linking up with your foil for the first time. Glassjaw definitely changed my life in the biggest way possible.” ThinkingMomentsSchoolSpeakChangedHigh SchoolFirst TimeProducersRoughFuryChanged My Life Author:Daryl Palumbo
“I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.” ThinkingYearsFirstsChildrenHomeNextFirst TimeNext Year Author:Jessica Lange
“I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.” PeopleThinkingFirstsSometimesShowsHappensNightLostVoiceCareersFiveFirst TimeSingersEvery NightBummed Out Author:Avril Lavigne
“When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'” ThinkingFirstsWellsGirlFirst TimeAskingMathLikes Author:Danica McKellar
“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBigsSeemsRememberFiveTypeFirst TimeDramaticConcertsDepressingMarsMundaneCarterVenuesColonizing MarsReally Depressing Author:Moby