"Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next."

First, Memory, Years

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next."

Exlpore more First quotes

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

First, Mind, James M. Baldwin

"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."

Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer

First,

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."

Ike Turner, American Musician

First, Teaching

"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

Debbie Allen, American Actress

First, Talking

"Joe Louis was one of my first heroes."

Robert Goulet, American Musician

First, Heroes

"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

First,

"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."

Richard Ben Veniste, American Lawyer

First, Information, Question, states

"My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

First, Guitar, Jazz

"We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there."

Tom Araya, American Musician

First,

"I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra."

Lalla Ward, English Actor

First,

Explore more quotes by Conrad Veidt

"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."

Possibility

"I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first."

Day

"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."

Life

"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."

Expectation

"I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor."

Actor

"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."

Eye

"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them."

Art

"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul."

Business

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

Acting

"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."

Acting