I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

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."

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.