Quotes from Tom Shadyac

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

Definition is the death of discovery.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

We are what make up society.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.