If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

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."

The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

New York is the thing that seduced me.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.