Burt Reynolds Quotes
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If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
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I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
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It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do Smokey and the Bandit, and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.
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We got Sally Field onboard in Smokey and the Bandit and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.
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I'm really much more like Phil Potter from the 1979 film Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit from Smokey and the Bandit, and I'm a lot more serious than that.
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If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.
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Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
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Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.
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There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
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Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.
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Goldie Hawn is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
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All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
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Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture Hal Needham directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.
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Gator McKlusky from White Lightning was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a cousin to Bo. Bo was not a felon and definitely never wanted to hurt anybody - the final scene confirms that. He confesses to Buford T. Justice that he is right behind him. Gator McKlusky would not have done that.
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Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.
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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
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I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.
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The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
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A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine.
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I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
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I had known Hal Needham for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we'd get along well, and we did. He'd go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones.
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I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.