After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.
I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.
