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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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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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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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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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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There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
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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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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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Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
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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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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.