I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

- David Geffen

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

- David Geffen

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

- David Geffen

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

- David Geffen

Broke is a Hollywood term!

- David Geffen

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

- David Geffen

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

- David Geffen

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

- David Geffen

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

- David Geffen

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

- David Geffen

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

- David Geffen

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

- David Geffen

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

- David Geffen

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

- David Geffen

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

- David Geffen

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

- David Geffen

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

- David Geffen

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

- David Geffen

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

- David Geffen

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

- David Geffen