And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

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."

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.