“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”
“Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.”
“To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.”
“You can’t drown, you fool. You’re immortal.”
“No thinking—that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!”
“I admit I’m being paid well, but it’s no more than I deserve. After all, I’ve been screwed more times than a hooker.”
“I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.”
“Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.”
“You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive.”
“Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to man.”
“I don’t understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.”
“Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.”
“May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.”
“I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.”
“You call it luck. I call it destiny.”
“The knighthood I received was a fantastic honor but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.”
“I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.”
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear, there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil, there is no need for God.”
“The knighthood I received was a fantastic honor but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.”
“I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.”
“Some age, others mature.”
“There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!”
“More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”
“They say if you resort to violence, then you’ve already lost.”
“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”
“If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film. But in the end, retirement is just too much fun.”
“I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.”
“If you’re afraid of getting a rotten apple, don’t go to the barrel. Get it off the tree.”
“I haven’t found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.”
“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
“You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.” “If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.”
