What's well begun is half done.
When we first began, we didn't have any hits.
Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
When I first started out, I kinda just wanted to do comedy stuff, and thankfully, I had a fair amount of success. I've been able to be on, I think, almost virtually every American sitcom.
When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, 'OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I'll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.' That's what I thought.
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
The first film where I had a speaking role was 'The Low Life,' but I did appear for about three seconds in 'Straight Talk' with Dolly Parton and James Woods. I had a line, and it was cut. It was alright: I got my AEU card anyway.
I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'
Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.
When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right away. I'll be a giant superstar. I can take over the world now.' But I put out a song, and it did OK. It wasn't like leaps and bounds.
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
If you go back and watch 'Saw,' I was very young. I'd never really done anything before.
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
After a three-month course in acting, I bagged my first film 'Suraksha' - opposite actor Suniel Shetty.
