To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

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."

beauty pertains with everyone. It's just the perception that defines the differences.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

My job isn't to represent the Democrat Party or the Republican Party. It's to represent Hoosier families.

Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.