Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

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."

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

Help other people, help themselves

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.