“I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.”
“If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.”
“California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far – $400 a month more than New Jersey – and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time.”
“This time all the historical details and things were right. But I’d written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.”
“You can’t talk about yourself in the third party – that makes you a lunatic!”
“That’s the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person’s blog story that they wrote when they were upset.”
“What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that’s much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.”
“You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people’s shoes.”
“The Misfits skull was my second tattoo, and the Danzig was my third.”
“I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!”