I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.
The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.
There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.
My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.
The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal
. . . semantics. . . is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense