Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

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."

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Why is the Chosen One always a he?

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.