The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
Janet Baker, Musician (1933) |
Count Basie, Musician (1904) |
Steve Case, Businessman (1958) |
Kim Cattrall, Actress (1956) |
Jackie DeShannon, Musician (1944) |
Loretta Devine, Actress (1949) |
Jacqueline Emerson, Actress (1994) |
James P. Cannon, Activist (1974) |
Charles Eames, Designer (1978) |
Georgia Harkness, Theologian (1974) |
George Jackson, Activist (1971) |