A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.