Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.
