When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.
I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
Can you imagine the first time they figured out how to mechanically raise somebody up through the stage and make them appear, or drop them down on a rope or a wire? It blew everybody's minds, I'm sure.
When K. Balachander saw me for the first time, he booked me for three films and asked me to learn Tamil first.
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
I knew I had I a better album than 'Up the Bracket' in me, and I wanted to record it. But I was told we've got to keep touring, keep promoting. That was the first time I realised we were on a conveyor belt.
The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!
First time we played in New York was in 2013. It was all very eye-opening. A very bright lights, big-city sort of vibe, and we played the Mercury Lounge.
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
Burt Reynolds, the first time I met him, he introduced me at Madison Square Garden at Wrestlemania X.
It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.