There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

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."

If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.