I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

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."

Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I like being a leader in real life.

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.