I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

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."

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

Intelligence is derived from two words

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.