In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

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."

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.