After I realized my father didn't take care of the family, he sank somewhat in my eyes.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
At the end of the day, no one's powerful.
Broke is a Hollywood term!
Clive Davis is wrong, and he's jealous.
Dad was an intellectual. He wasn't successful or ambitious. He spoke lots of languages.
Disney paid more than it wanted, and Jeffrey Katzenberg got less than he wanted.
Go for the gut, go for the emotions.
Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
I already had a loser with Personal Best, and I am not going to take any chance of failure.
I am truly my mother's son.
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
I can't imagine that anything in the future will be better than this.
I don't like any of my clients. This is not fun any more.
I hate to kick a man when he's down.
I hope my gifts will encourage more people to come forward and give generously. In the face of so much death, we must do all we can to support life.
I intend to be me. Whatever that is.
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 knew all those people, intimately and well.
I know that I will succeed, because I am committing all the energy, intelligence, passion, and belief that I can muster up to make me do so.
I made more enemies today than in my whole life.
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.
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
I told them that we wouldn't take one penny in salary or bonuses or anything until they got a return. And we didn't.
I want to go home, watch a movie, and go to bed.
I want to keep Asylum Records very small.
I want to read this book and not worry whether or not Steve McQueen is going to be available to play the lead.
I was standing up for Jeffrey. I'm a stand-up guy. I can be counted on by my friends. And I'm proud of that and I feel good about that.
I would like to own the Los Angeles Times.
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.
I'll never have more artists than I can fit into this sauna.
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
I'm delivering the mail to people's offices and I hear them on the phone, and I think, I can do that. Talk on the phone. This I can do.
I'm going to Acapulco for a vacation. What the hell do I have to be in Washington for?
I'm good at deciding what people like. I'm gifted at knowing what will be a success before it is a success.
I'm just here as a member of the audience.
I'm not in this because I need or want to make another billion; that would have no value. It's all in the doing, all in the journey.
I'm not lending that painting. It's too fragile. Don't bother me about it any more.
I'm not looking to be a personal manager.
I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.
I'm willing to trust people until I'm taught not to trust them. I come from a place of trust and openness.
I've been working on myself, and my demons and my nonsense for a long, long time.
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.
In order to get a job at the William Morris Agency, I said I graduated from UCLA.
In the '70s, I wasn't a businessman. I was simply a fan. In the '80s I was a businessman.
It makes me incredibly sad thinking that in two weeks Geffen Records will be there but I won't be there.
It was an amazing display of herd thinking. I don't know anything about the lawsuit.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
It's hard for me to explain to you what I've done, even in the past, let alone today.
It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.
It's very sad for me. It's a painful thing.
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world.
Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
My life can't be a failure, right? My life is a success; I'm a happy guy.
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
Normally I'm a nervous wreck getting up in front of people.
People in the record business come up with names like Asylum, Capricorn, Island.
Pimps are big, rough, threatening guys. There are no pimps like this scrawny guy.
Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
The money certainly doesn't make it worthwhile.
The one thing I despise is making decisions based on how other people will view or judge me.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
The record business is a disaster, Broadway is a disaster. Things are bad but I'm doing well.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. Watch where we are at the end of the race.
This isn't about the hero winning. My picture is about capitalism and what it teaches you and how hard it can be for some people.
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
We know what we're doing, no matter what anyone else writes.
We were all just hanging out, and-oh, my God-I just heard this guy Tom Waits, and isn't he terrific, and I'm going to make a record with him.
We would all rather die than fail.
We're going to continue to run the company as we always have.
Werner Erhard told us at the beginning that he was going to tell us everything we needed to know about sex. I was so disappointed!
What am I going to say to these people? It's awful. Awful. I have absolutely no desire to go to these things. I lead a very quiet life.
What, are they going to bury you with your money someday?
When friends of yours get divorced, I'm sure you're not on the phone calling them up and telling them to get back together.
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
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