I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

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."

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation