I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.
You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
In 1963, when I joined Hindi film industry it raised many eyebrows.
In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.
I want to do roles that no one else has ever done, which I know is difficult.
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.
Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.
I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.
Not many people know that I was one of the first few Indian actors to do a television show. I did the dance show 'Kya Masti Kya Dhoom' when I was at the peak of my career.
A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.
I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
