"Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head."

"If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon."

"There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable."

"The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term."

"I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor."

"Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs."

"I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

"Giving is the business of the rich."

"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."

"A business exists to create a customer"

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision"

"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

"It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting."

"I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business."

"I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it."

"I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business."

"I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate."

"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple."

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two."

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."