If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

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."

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.