I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

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."

Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own, " said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.