If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.