- Nov 07, 2020
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On risk, reinvention and the realities of business.
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020