Never Done Before Quotes

#1. To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

Jessica Lange

#2. Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before!

Laura C. Schlessinger

#3. I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.

Brit Marling

#4. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Alan Jay Lerner

#5. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

Brian Molko

#7. Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

Thomas Vinterberg

#9. Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.

Gabriel Campisi

#10. Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

Anton Corbijn

#11. Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

David Beckham

#12. Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Adam Savage

#13. You're making my heart do things it's never done before."

Jaycee Ford

#14. For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.

Ray Winstone

#15. Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Shigeo Shingo

#16. If you want to so something you've never done before, you will have to believe something you've never believed before.

Paul Clayton Gibbs

#17. I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I don't know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?

David Alpay

#18. She knew she was going to die soon, why be afraid? It wouldn't help at all, it wouldn't prevent the fatal heart attack; the best plan would be to enjoy the days and hours that remained, doing things she had never done before.

Paulo Coelho

#19. You make me want to do things I've never done before. Never wanted to do before,' she whispered.

C.C. MacKenzie

#20. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen had made a lifetime career of seeking new experiences. He dabbled in hedonistic pleasures - rich foods, exotic drugs, deviant sex - discovering things he had never done before.
But a baby in Harkonnen Keep ... how would he handle that?

Brian Herbert

#21. I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

Christian Slater

#22. Sing like your on top of the World. Cry like you have never done before. And breathe like your never do it again.

Tania Gardana

#23. I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

Nicholas D'Agosto

#24. She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.

Susan Wiggs

#25. When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'There's just one thing to remember; whatever happens, it does no good to be afraid.' So I promised not to be afraid, and may even have been a fool enough to think I could keep my promise.

Robertson Davies

#26. I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

Roddy Doyle

#27. You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Alicia Keys

#28. This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

Michael W. Smith

#29. It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

Jerome K. Jerome

#30. I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

Max Von Sydow

#31. That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

John Cleese

#32. I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

Harrison Ford

#33. I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before,

Hadiqa Kiani

#34. I always do something that I've never done before.

Lars Von Trier

#35. A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

Lindsey Vonn

#36. Oh, and one more thing: if I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people that never even try.

Sebastian Cole

#37. You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Penelope Wilton

#38. I decided that for me, Akosua, I will be my own nation."
As James listened to her speak, he felt something well up inside him as it had never done before. If he could, he would listen to her speak forever. If he could, he would join that nation she spoke of.

Yaa Gyasi

#39. 'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

Kelly Masterson

#40. Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

Naveen Jain

#41. I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

Tony Danza

#42. Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Will Barnet

#43. Never fear what people will say ... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quite a long period now! You too can fly!

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#45. When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

Spike Jonze

#46. I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

Kristen Stewart

#47. What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

Karl Lagerfeld

#48. Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Arthur Smith

#49. I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

William Earl Brown

#50. I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Ginni Rometty

#51. I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well.

James Welling

#52. To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Stephen Covey

#53. (On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

Humphrey Bogart

#54. Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

Arthur Smith

#55. I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

Jonathan Nolan

#56. From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

Aaron Paul

#57. It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

Diane Arbus

#58. I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

Robert Kurson

#59. This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!

Pablo

#60. If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don't be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

Joyce Meyer

#61. In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

James Surowiecki

#62. When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Neil Patrick Harris

#63. Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

Pierre Boulez

#64. When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

Robert Plant

#65. If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.

W. Brian Arthur

#66. So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

Trevor Nunn

#67. For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Charles Palliser

#68. People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Brenda Blethyn

#69. Handing you control was easier and more freeing than I thought it'd be. I've never done that before.

Lorelei James

#70. I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.

Melika Dannese Lux

#71. Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!

Madonna Ciccone

#72. I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

George MacDonald

#73. My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Kate Bush

#74. I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

Gillian Jacobs

#75. People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Michael Lynton

#76. Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Herbie Mann

#77. Maybe sometimes you have to leave before you're ready to let go; sometimes you have to leave before someone is ready to let go of you. That's the rub of it-if you wait until you're ready to do everything, you'll never get anything done.

Amy Reed

#78. We've never done it that way before" is often cited as the seven last words of a dying church.

Sam Rainer

#79. Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Marianne Williamson

#80. And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious.
'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.

David Eddings

#81. I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

Peter Tork

#82. I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

Cat Power

#83. He had never hated her for healing....She had done her time in hell...But she had come out. There had been Before, there had been Hell, there had been After, and there had been After-After.

Stephen King

#84. I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before, you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you've done it for 20 years.

Kieran Bew

#85. The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Regina E. Dugan

#86. Remembering my youth makes me aware that I never really had enough of it, it was over before I was done with it.

Marilynne Robinson

#87. When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

David Morse

#88. His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright.
"No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena."
The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever.
A long silence fell between them.

Sarah J. Maas

#89. I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

Craig Roberts

#90. I loved doing Cee Lo's Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida's Right Round, because I could rap, which I've never really done before.

Skylar Astin

#91. I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

Maisie Williams

#92. I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

Zooey Deschanel

#93. The desire that we have to do something that's never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it ... if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn't be unique.

Seth Godin

#94. My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."

Kristen Stewart

#95. It was fun. I'd never done anything like that. I'd never done any bi-sexual or lesbian scenes before, but it was really fun.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#96. Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

Richard G. Scott

#97. When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

Martin Luther

#98. There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Prince Philip

#99. I would love to be employed for the rest of my life ... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

Nathan Fillion

#100. I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

Gregory Heisler