Quotes About Industry

Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.

Steven Spielberg is a big name in the Hollywood Industry and to be associated with a film that he has made is truly an honor for me.

The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

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

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.

We're like the stock exchange - we know everything that's happening in the family. Since our kids are in the same profession, we all know how they're placed.

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

Someday you give a hit movie and things are good, but when your next movie fails, your stocks fall.

I'm always playing someone grumpy or sad or grieving or downtrodden or stoic. As people get to know me within the industry, they know it's completely the opposite of what I'm like because I am a hyperactive, energetic ball.

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that it changed the industry: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sly and the Family Stone.

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.

When producers and directors were courting Sivaji Ganesan, MGR directed and produced 'Nadodi Mannan' and showed that he can do it alone. He created history and stood his ground against one of the best actors in history, Sivaji Ganesan.