I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

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."

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

It is always the soul and brain that really matters

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

New talents are the future.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.