Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.
If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.
I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
