“I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?” PeopleIfsFirstsFoundFunTalkingAudienceCamerasObsessionYoutubeHad FunBrowsing Author:Tyler Oakley
“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!” FirstsSaidKidsAbleGivenTalkingFiveSonSceneDirectorsProtectSittingStandingMarkFantasticMy SonPlasticThronesCostumesKnightsAssistantsImmensityEldestGodmotherEldest SonArchways Author:Cate Blanchett
“I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.” KnowsFirstsHardCharacterFilmUsedVoiceHalfTalkingPleaseDirectorsStoresVersionsDrunkIndianSlothWedgesSids Author:John Leguizamo
“Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.” ShouldFirstsFightingTalkingPoliticianDiplomacy Author:Seth Moulton
“I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin.” KnowsMenWantFirstsKindLittlesTalkingMinutesGoes OnRight NowDatingCome UpMoodGossipPalinBabylonHiatus Author:Meghan McCain
“When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMatterMovingYoungThreeBlackTalkingEgoLowsThirdsImpactSpeedHopefulYoung WomenBlack Lives MatterQuotingBlack Lives Author:Gloria Steinem
“Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons.” FirstsDoeHardTalkingTypeTrumpGunToughBlowDebateIronImpressRegisterGunslingerPixiesDryersPerms Author:Michael R. Burch
“I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.” FirstsTalkingSubjectsDown AndDepressing Author:Chris Rock
“We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.” IfsNeedsTryingFirstsKindTogetherTalkingBreakRiskThirdsImpactMentalityPhilanthropyRecognizingBreak ThroughTaking Risks Author:Steve Case
“If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience - it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God.” IfsMenFirstsMayPhilosophyCertainBeliefTalkingConscienceBelieverStreamsWord Of GodStrainMonopolyNon Believer Author:Mitt Romney
“Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldYearsFirstsTwoCharacterHappensRememberGamesForgetTalkingChangedLike YouWingsWestTwo YearsThrones Author:Alex Graves
“TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.” GivingFirstsDoneShowsTalkingCrazyTvsCoupleSeriesSolitaryEpisodesTv ShowsSchedulesMondayFridayInputTv Series Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.” PeopleWantFirstsKindHelpingGuySexTalkingAcceptingGroupsColorMusic Is Author:ASAP Rocky
“When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.” KnowsFirstsActorsStuffTalkingScenePrisonConfrontation Author:Laura Prepon
“It was the first thing I learned when I started. An old boss said to me, 'Your job is to reflect interest, not to create it.' And what I've taken from that is, if you're not talking about things people are interested in, then they're going to find someone who is. It's not any more complicated than that. But if you forget it, you won't have a show for very long.” PeopleIfsFirstsLongSaidShowsJobsInterestForgetTalkingTakenComplicatedBossForget ItNot Talking Author:Mike Greenberg
“I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.” FirstsGuyTalkingSawsFirst TimeMirrorsDriversReally CoolTaxi Author:Vincent Paronnaud
“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsWarCountrySometimesStatesNationsTalkingProduceYears AgoGreekHistorianTriggersMixingGreat Society Author:Philippe Falardeau
“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.” PeopleFirstsEnoughStoriesDesireActorsFeltPleasureTalkingSubjectsNeededEasierSilentI RealizedMake SenseJustificationFormatSilent Movies Author:Michel Hazanavicius