Sentences with phrase «one's first big break»

Ida Lupino's first big break came in William Wellman's 1940 production of The Light That Failed, a role that Lupino fought for over the objections of Wellman, co-star Ronald Colman, and her advisors, who assured her that the unsympathetic cockney girl she played in the film would alienate audiences.

Einstein's first big break with tradition came while he was in his twenties, as he pondered how light travels through a vacuum.

Yoshitomo Nara's first big break came in the late 1990's when he joined Japanese cult novelist Banana Yoshimoto on a book project.

Oprah's first big break was her gig at the local black radio station.

The other Hugh Grant, a Glaswegian with an agricultural degree, got his first big break in 1981 when he came across a want ad for Monsanto.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

In 2015, the brothers landed their first big break: a $ 500,000 prize at the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition.

Houston got its first big break of the night when Martin muffed a punt, giving the Texans the ball back at the 21 - yard line.

Now in his mid-30s and nearing retirement age, Howard is going back to the league that gave him his first big break back in the 1990s.

The first big break came in 1992, when the Supernova Cosmology Project bagged its first distant Type Ia supernova using a new CCD detector on the two - meter (6 1/2 foot) Isaac Newton Telescope at the La Palma Observatory in the Canary Islands.

His first big break was as Corporal Billy Jester in the 1959 off - Broadway operetta spoof Little Mary Sunshine, which won him both a Theatre World award and a bride (he married Cynthia Baer, one of the show's producers).

His first big break as an actor came from his current role of Jake on THE CHI.

However, her role as Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter, Astrid, in 2002's White Oleander marked her first big break.

He began acting on and writing for a number of television series, and he got his first big break co-starring with old friend Jim Belushi on the sitcom Working Stiffs (1979).

Alexander Skarsgard has been a name thrown around a lot in smaller films or supporting roles, but this seems to be his first big break, at least in my opinion.

Weinstein gave Clooney his first big break as an actor in the film «From Dusk till Dawn,» as well as his first big directing break with «Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.»

One of the first big breaks for him and his brother was as co-writers on the infamous Seinfeld episode «The Virgin,» which introduced the Marla character played by Jane Leeves and gave audience the scene where Elaine discusses her diaphragm.

It might be refreshing for some of his fans to see Cera actually play someone other than an in - name - only variation of the George Michael persona from his first big break in «Arrested Development.»

Redmayne, like his little gold man, prefers modesty — he's bashful about discussing his well - heeled upbringing in London, his education at Eton (where Prince William was a classmate) and then Cambridge, where, as an undergrad, he landed his first big break in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, opposite the theater legend Mark Rylance.

In this mode, you play as a stunt driver fresh out of driving school, looking for your first big break.

The youngest person at the time to achieve the acting trifecta of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony, Rush discusses his early days acting in Australian theater and his first big break, which he says he got by going completely naked onstage and being «discovered» (he likes to... Read

According to the actress — who had one of her first big breaks as the slightly unhinged object of Vince Vaughn's affections in the 2005 comedy — Vaughn recently told her at a party that «apparently we're going to be making a sequel.»

Gerard Butler got his start in a small role as the Leading Seaman in «Tomorrow Never Dies,» but his first big break didn't come until 2003's «Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Cradle of Life.»

Trucy has finally landed her first big break: Trucy in Gramarye Land!

Employed to seek out intelligent life on other planets, Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen) gets his first big break in the form of a radio signal.

Knightley, 29, who achieved her first big break in the footballing hit Bend it Like Beckham, which was directed by Gurinder Chadha, said male directors have a «funny construction of femininity.»

His first big break in the movie business was with MAJOR DUNDEE, starring Hollywood legends Charlton Heston and Richard Harris.

Oh, and there were a couple of sketch players getting their first big breaks on TV: Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.

Though it was his debutant film his first big break in the movie arena was in another Christmas movie.

Wouldn't it be cool if one of the author's featured on my site got their first big break as an author from my site and for free?

It was my first big break, and it gave me a tremendous amount of confidence.

It was my first big break.

During this time, we also started taking our travel blog, Two Monkeys Travel a lot more seriously and I had my first big break, my first article published in Rappler!

It is difficult enough to start a company, and that is harder when your first big break is ruined by some other companies cheap shot at cashing in on your creativity.

Between the real life experiences and the step - by - step walkthroughs of how certain things work, this is essential material for budding musicians looking for their first big break — or perhaps veterans looking for fresh inspiration.

In 1954, 25 - year - old Kusama had her first big break with a solo exhibition at the Shirokiya Gallery in Tokyo.

It turns out that Fischl gave Saltz his first big break as a writer, hiring him to co-write Sketchbook With Voices — «a kind of texbook survey was doing... about the artist's process.»

My first big break was in 2012, when I got the chance to have a solo exhibition in a new art space in Yogyakarta.

PARINAZ MOGADASSI — When did your first big break come?

His first big break came in 1962, when dealer Richard Bellamy, with the support of his backer, collector Robert Scull, invited Poons to show his work at the nascent Green Gallery.

Her first big break was having a painting included in the Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1971.

Yes, that's right; your first big break may come from pouring coffee and fetching copies.

Jordan's first big break came when he was offered the lead part in Disney's Broadway recreation of Newsies.

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