I have pretty thick skin and I think if you're going to be in this business if you're going to be an actor or a writer you better have a thick skin.

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.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business football manager or prime minister but rather: bus driver.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

My view is that you still in order to win from the Labour perspective have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

The monarchy is foremost a business and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

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.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Christ would be a national advertiser today I am sure as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

You hear entertainers all the time saying 'If I couldn't get paid for this I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum I'd do it for free'?

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.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

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.