I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

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."

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away