Quotes About Industry

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

When I started working, the big models were people like Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. It was a time when there were models who had real personalities and individuality.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

had begun to put the mining on a scientific basis as early as I could.

His intertwined understanding informed his professional path; his path informed an industry.

If you believe that the dollars made by the pharmaceutical industry are plowed back into research that leads to better and better medications, you probably believe in the tooth fairy as well.

Treating sickness as a business opportunity has just about killed the joy of healing, the very reason most doctors and nurses wanted to go into it in the first place.