For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

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 true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination