Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

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."

Strip malls are history.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.