The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

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."

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

You have to understand the nature of light.

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.