I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

I need physics more than friends.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I think, first of all, I don’t think people understand Ice Cube’s body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word ‚urban‘ but – when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who’s launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.