Initial Impression Quotes

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

Do you believe in apathy at first sight?

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

When I first met Robert Patrick, I died - he is so scary looking - he is a scary looking man.