When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

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."

Hope makes a merry heart.

It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts, because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.

As if it wouldn’t rain without you...

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

The most useful is the greatest.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.