“I learned that attention is a prize, in love. The first thing you give. And the first thing to go, when the ‘new’ wears off.”
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”
“What is it? A prize or something?No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.”
“Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”
“Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.”
“When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.”