My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.
I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn't realise that in America you can't go into the room and put yourself down.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.
Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
