Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

We got to pray just to make it today.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

i am everything • i am nothing • therefore • i can be anything

A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.