It literally took me fourteen years to 'make it' in any real, bill-paying way in show business.
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Money can’t buy happiness? I hate that saying. Money helps a lot of people. To pretend that it doesn’t is just woo-woo bullshit. We live in a capitalist society. Money improves people’s circumstances. It just does.
History and pop culture are full dynamic duos whose catalytic relationships were able to move mountains — Oprah and Gayle; Steve Jobs and Tim Cook; Paul McCartney and John Lennon. These are people who wouldn’t have gotten to where they are (or did) without the other. They’re work soulmates who bring…
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
'I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re…
Doubts aren’t necessarily a symptom of ineffectiveness so much as they are evidence that you care, and if that’s the case, you’re exactly where you need to be.
I'm a career girl!
Trust me when I tell you that when I went on a date with the hostess of the Italian restaurant that I bussed tables at in college — only to later find out that the girl was the daughter of the owner — I’d not only written my resignation letter, but I also thought I was going to be whacked.
Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking 'Wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.'
— Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, Derek Zoolander, Ben Stiller, imdb.com
Dreams change. Life upends us, or we upend life.
Life? What life are you talking about? I ain't got no life! I just got a living.
He’ll have to finish his career in Saskatchewan.
— Evan T. Reilly, Rashard Mendenhall, Tracy Legette, Arielle Kebbel, imdb.com
The female dissatisfaction chronicled by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique was prompted by a widespread awakening to the bullshit promises of domestic happiness, manufactured by culture to make female containment look good. Now another bullshit promise has taken its place, and another generatio…
I always find inspiration in books.
The stereotype of the 'struggling artist' doesn’t have to be you (unless you dig that grungy aesthetic).
If someone feels like you are their main competition, it means you are good at what you do. They think you are a threat to their success because you could steal their thunder. Take it as a compliment instead of an insult.
Date a creative girl because she follows her heart. She chooses to do what she is passionate about instead of what everyone else instructs her to do.
When someone asks you to get a real job, they are really asking you to give up on your dreams and settle for second best.
It's completely unprofessional. And I know because my whole career's been based on being unprofessional.