My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.
To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.
The dead are not seen in the company of the living.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
Our company has to be a company that enables its people.
Misery can only be quelled but never cured.
Most comedy comes out of misery.
It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
Misery is the outcome of one's continuous negative evaluations of one's life.
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
In life; threats, misery and pain weigh the same.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
There is no greater misery than false joys.
