Who asks a king for a penny?
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'
That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.
Nobody's coming to me with 60 million dollars to turn it into a 315 million dollar juggernaut even though I created the Huffington Post.
