I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
Effective action is always unjust.
I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
I may believe in something, but if it is not working and is not giving returns, we have to close it down because that is the right thing to do for the shareholders.
Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.
My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?
I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
