The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

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

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

Death steals everything except our stories.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.