I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

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."

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

You can’t chain your heart forever, one day or another you are going to open it for someone and (s)he is going to piss inside it.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

It's very important to instill values in children.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.