The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

Help does not only come through financial assistance. There are a lot of ways with which one person can help another person.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.