I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

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."

My soul is my soul.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

Natural laws admit of no exceptions.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

One simple rule: no amnesty, no special pathway to citizenship.

I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.