I took Second City out of desperation, and that’s what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn’t take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film’s abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y’know, that’s great. But I...

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

It’s too late for that – trying to second guess it. It’s over. I’m worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

I’ve never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

I’m 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it’s not just a hunting right. It’s a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I’ve always been a producer – that’s how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of...

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have...

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to...

There isn’t a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn’t have a second job, for when there is no wind.

‘Badmaash Company’ and ‘Delhi Belly’ was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing...

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box...

You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and...

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I’m recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too...

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100...

The Neighbours cast is like a second family.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’

Today is an ephemeral ghost…A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.”In mundane terms, it marks a “leap” in time, when the...

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don’t happen in the studio.

I like to say magic is the world’s second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Jesus Christ is coming back because God’s divine plan for humanity involves a second exodus; a supernatural exodus.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him...

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down...

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.