I think I wrote the first draft of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in ’79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke. – Wes Craven
When I came up with the character of Wicket for ‘Return Of The Jedi’, which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok. – Warwick Davis
Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig. – Samina Baig
I think my first hit was probably ’24 is a Rubberband Man,’ which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn’t get national exposure on my second album. – T.I.
My first series regular was on a TV show called ‘Starved,’ which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced. – Sterling K. Brown
You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera. – Sondra Radvanovsky
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures. – Steven Klein
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
My natural-born sarcasm, when it’s unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I’m the first to admit that. – Tom Bergeron
I’m a comedian first. I’ve learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that’s how I’ve learned. I didn’t take classes or anything. I don’t need no classroom. – Steve Harvey
The thing is that I’m an actor first, and in ‘Once,’ I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor. – Steve Kazee
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. – Stephen Greenblatt
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn’t much of a future in it. – Tim Conway
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun Tzu
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. – W. G. Sebald
