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.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.