American Quotes

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

I work from the inside out.

For me, every day is a new thing.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.