“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.” FirstsTvsResearchCamerasTapeIntroductionFacilityLabsDuplicationRecorded Music Author:Alan Parsons
“I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.” FirstsShowsSimpleTvsCookingSeriesEverydaySavingKitchenCelebrationFloridaTime And MoneyPbsSaving Time Author:Jacques Pepin
“The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.” ThinkingFirstsShowsWrittenFansTvsSeasonsWire Author:Amy Ryan
“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.” WritingFirstsSongRecordsWrittenTvsFirst TimeUniversalAlbumsBusPromotingLiving OnWriting SongsPersonal Experiences Author:Kate Voegele
“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.” FirstsShowsCollegeTvsTv ShowsShow MeMedics Author:Robert Vaughn
“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.” NeedsWritingFirstsShowsWorryTelevisionTvsInternetOnlineTv ShowsSeventiesEightyWebsiteBlockbuster Author:Al Franken
“How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so others will take notice of your art? When I was first trying to get noticed, all of these questions went through my mind. After a lot of trial of error and a lot of reading, I began to understand the world of public relations.” WorldTryingMindFirstsArtReadingTvsRelationErrorsNewspapersTrialsLocalsMagazinesPublic Relations Author:Mark Edward
“I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"” FirstsDoeShowsAmericaRememberSpaceSawsTelevisionTvsDeserveTv ShowsRemember WhenPostersTelevision ShowsBillboards Author:Jamie Bell
“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsDifferentStoriesUseNextHouseRoomsGenerationsTvsInternetPhonesVariousScreensMediumsCellsDifferent WaysNext GenerationCell PhoneLiving RoomCellarsAttics Author:Cyriac Roeding
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.” IfsWantWritingFirstsMeanBookTvsAmountRidiculous Author:Josh Lieb
“People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.” PeopleNeedsFirstsStoriesJobsSportsInterestAnswersTvsPerformancesRecognitionRelatedEggsCyclesChickensTypicalCricketViciousVisibilitySponsorshipWhere We ComeVicious CyclesInterest In Others Author:Gagan Narang
“Back in '96, I was on "The Price Is Right" pointing at refrigerators, and "Extra," the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!” PeopleKnowsFirstsSaidShowsAmericaNextTvsInternetEntertainmentExtrasOnlineEntityTv ShowsNext DayPointingRefrigeratorsDownloads Author:Cindy Margolis
“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.” PeopleWorldFirstsCountryHandsValuesCultureInformationTvsInternetPhonesOther CountriesMobileValidityOther CulturesMobile PhonesSecond HandFirst Hand Experience Author:Nitin Sawhney