You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.
I like movies that make you think.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.
My philosophy is to make an offer that the other guy can't refuse, because he thinks there's no way he can't win.
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
Great hopes make great men.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
