I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

I never fight except against difficulties.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one