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I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.