Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.
I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem. " That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.
You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44. 6 effectively. This is killing us.
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.