If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

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."

Stop writing caption. Go action!

If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

I don't think too much about awards.

The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.