I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I am truly my mother's son.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.