Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.