David Geffen

I just asked her to support me in this one thing. It’s not a big lie. She should have understood that I was just trying to sell the song to America’s premier songstress.

Of course it scored well! It was all fags and old people!

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

If you’re successful, people will talk about you. There’s nothing you can do about it. People make up stories.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it’s not that way at all, it’s something else.

When we first started DreamWorks, I said to Jeffrey, ‘We ought to call this new company the Spielberg Brothers. Anything Steven thinks is important, we want to invest in.

I like you baby, just not more than my work right now

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they’re doing well, you don’t really need to be in control all the time.

It’s good to get information and feedback from your fans on the Internet. But a lot of it is downright mean. There are three or four guys who say they’re Vince Neil and people come to the shows because these guys promise them tickets, and when there’s no tickets there, they get mad at the band. That kind of stuff bums me out.

When it’s your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Ever since the Taylor Swift moment, it’s never been the same – the connection with radio.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I am very proud of the titles I have earned. However, the honorary title I have been given this year as chairman of the VA National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans program is one I accept with great humility and pride. I encourage all Americans to visit some true champions this Valentine’s week and find out how you can serve those who have served us so well.

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

Yes, it’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin spice lattes, the coffee that tastes like a candle.

Amy Poehler made it clear that she wasn’t there to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives or girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not f**king care if you like it.

I don’t know what would have happened to me if I hadn’t been able to hear.

I’d love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.