I'm the audience's representative on earth.

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."

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.

Sin in the world destroys people’s lives through lust, sickness and addiction

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

Think more design less

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.