A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.
But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.