Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.
Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.
We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?
When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.
