"My best takes are my first two takes."
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"Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.""
"I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny."
"Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection."
"When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something."
"If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter."
"The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish."
"The first dish pleaseth all."
"The first blow is as much as two."
"When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding."
"Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature."
"He that riseth first, is first drest."
"He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after."
"The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are."
"You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us."
"Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own.""
"There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand."
"Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin)."
"Golf is tougher than my first wife."
"[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank."