Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because obviously the body of work that they've brought out wasn't good enough,' and that was it.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?