You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

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."

Love has no color, love has no language and love has no religion.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

You may have tangible wealth untold

... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it.

Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.