I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
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.
The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
