I have an answering machine in my car. It says I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood as in any business the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

If I were to try to read much less answer all the attacks made on me this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way it is about answering to yourself.