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Some years you have good years, some years you don't.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.