Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts go eccentric even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

A lot of people including business leaders think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

By 1969 when I celebrated 45 years in the music business I also had 45 people in our musical family.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us and those we do business with.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can it's so unnatural for me to do it on television in interviews in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business like balance sheets and hiring people were new to me.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and instead only give legal status to civil unions.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business economic political and social system.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family friends co-workers business associates and others.

Don't solicit feedback on your product idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward but if you're just looking to your friend co-worker husband or wife for validation be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high cultured conversations.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think 'Well you say I'm a pop star so maybe that's not true.'

In this business my business I get to meet all kinds of incredible people fascinating people glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting interesting interesting'. They're interesting but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business but are essential to governing like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.