My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

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."

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

And still I am learning.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.