My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

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."

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

I would love to do something like 'Tosh.0,' where I host Internet clips. I did host 'Talk Soup,' which is similar. I love doing that, making fun of video clips on the Internet.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?