Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
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.
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
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 was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
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.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
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 don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
