I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.