I don't think it's only Hollywood, I think it's just generally speaking. Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
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Danny DeVito
One of my good friends wound up dying in prison. And this wasn't an uncommon thing. It's like a neighbourhood you could have in London or anywhere in the world—anywhere where there's a concentrated amount of easy stuff to get into.
The way I see it, what you've got to do is think of now, this moment. If you're analyzing the past, or anticipating too far into the future, you don't really concentrate on what you're doing in this moment, and that's the most important thing. Right now! Right now is the most important moment in you…
If something good happens to me, I embrace it and let it go. If something bad happens to me, I embrace it and let it go. You have to. It's like something the Dalai Lama once said—that whole philosophy of going into the mouth of the dragon—facing who you are. Most of us are insecure and the other por…
You just throw the dice and you get lucky. And I surround myself with smart folks—usually young smart folks. It's good to be thought of in a good light, to have a little bit of clout, but you can't carry the ball all by yourself. You need a team.
Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it.
I just don't think equality is there at all. And it's not only women. It's inequality for young people, old people, women, minorities—there's no balance. We're seeing that in the world. People feeling that there's an incredible lack of genuine fairness.
I don't think I've been bored ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.
People would say to me, 'Why don't you do Broadway?' and my big joke was, nah, the dressing rooms are too small.
My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor. What we were doing in those days were stolen pharmaceuticals. Though you could be tempted with heroin, I wasn't. And it was mainly heroin then, there w…