David Geffen

I had worked for Warner Brothers most of my adult life, and I was totally enthralled by the world that this guy had created. So I bought the house. And I sold Warner Brothers all the scripts, the Oscars, the mementoes for $3 million, which they’re going to use for a museum. I sold some of the rest of the stuff for $7 million. And I kept millions of dollars of furniture and silver. So I was really paying about $34 million for prime Beverly Hills property.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

If you really believe it – go for it.

We got killed in Newsweek.

No one’s asked me. If somebody felt there was a job I could actually do I would consider it — not out of any ambition to be in Washington, but I do want to rise to the occasion of serving there if warranted.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

That dog don’t hunt.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.