For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Real management is developing people through work.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.