You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.