“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.”

“What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.”

“You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.”

“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.”

“You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.”

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”