I have always been a business person.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business their real passion is performing amateur operatic societies and so on.

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.

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.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow it's really nice here and sweet ' even in the competitive movie business.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh volatile business and unless you can be ruthless too there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Show business has been really really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business in New York City in the '50s that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

You have a career and you start as a business person. And you work your way you reach this peak and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

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'?

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax 9% personal flat tax 9% sales tax.

There is something sinister something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance melancholy. There's a sadness to it but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

As a speaker business leader or marketer of any type the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

I am a sensitive writer actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business call my disgusting personal manager.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business I really don't let it affect the way I live.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

When I started my last business I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.