If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls 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."

You burn like a candleinside my soul, showing me a waythrough this darkness.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Looks like macho boy's cool just melted like a Slush Puppie in August.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

Everyone changes all the time.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.