Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.