I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

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 realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

He who reckons ten friends has not one.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.

That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.