Pastoral Resources

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.