I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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."

I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

I find inspiration in everything.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.