When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
I never want to be the producer that I too often got.
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.
I miss my singing career very much.
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.
I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.
There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
In all honesty, I hope I don't coach again.
You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.
The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.
Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.
So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
One of the biggest regrets I have in life is not getting an opportunity to work with Yash Chopra.
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.
The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part of the astronaut for me. Taking that role would have been a way to get all the things I wanted.
I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
