I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

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."

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind’s eye and touch it through my heart.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich