If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

There is now more pressure on consumers than there has ever been and it is not sustainable.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

Not everyone can lead worship.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'