Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

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."

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.

We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.