I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

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."

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.