I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

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."

A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

The reward is found in the work.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.