I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Just because you've made a couple movies you've done some good movies you've been nominated for some Academy Awards whatever nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it I can think they're wrong but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I got to work with one of my heroes Johnny Depp and to see how he goes about business which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life but the problem is I chose a business saturated in judgment.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

In terms of having a business I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So you know I don't have a lot of scope and I'm really picky about what I wear.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class the novel is serious the novel is work the novel is conscientious application why the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up that you have no concrete proof of.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I may be kindly I am ordinarily gentle but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business only to become a jerk.

I have several writer friends but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

All business proceeds on beliefs or judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.

If you want to have a good life you should focus on your family on your business on your dog on your fun and you'll have a good life.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to run it.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance but nobody laughed.

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.