I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

A band can define their own success.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

I have nothing to lose but something to gain.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.