The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

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."

Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.

When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

When the day comes when you don’t believe in yourself there’s the door, get the hell out.

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.