When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

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."

Some men are born posthumously.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.