No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

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 meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

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

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.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.