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" I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television. "

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" If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth. "

Dan Webster

Limits

Push

Power

" I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes. "

" The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life. "

" All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. "

" Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. "

" A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. "

" That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. "

" When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!' "

" I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental. "

" We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. "

" Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life. "

" Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me. "

Zig Ziglar

Speak

Chance

" We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. "

" If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters. "

" As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion. "

" I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. "

" I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers. "

" I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that. "

" America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. "

" A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. "

" The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor. "

Gary Sinise

Romantic

Character

" The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "

" I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance. "

" I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over. "

" Taking risks gives me energy. "

Jay Chiat

Taking Risks

Chance

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. "

" I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose. "

" Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. "

" I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off. "

Lindsey Vonn