To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

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."

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.