I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

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.

All great peoples are conservative.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

This way of life is worth defending.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

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

I don’t think I would run for president.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

People love conspiracy theories.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

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.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Leadership is influence.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.