You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.
Russell SimmonsPeople are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.
Russell SimmonsI ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
Russell SimmonsI mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves.
Russell Simmons