You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.