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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."

"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."

"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."

"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry."

"Concerning Personal Branding and Social Media, Understand that attention came be gained or gamed but trust must be earned."

"Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational."
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"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."

"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."

"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."

"I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."

"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."

"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."

"I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films."

"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."

"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
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