Burt Reynolds Quotes
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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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.
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I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.
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The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using.
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I like to play strong women because there is so much emotion to bring to these roles.
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Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.
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I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.
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We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.
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I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it...
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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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On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'
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Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.
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You can't stop people from thinking what they want.
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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.
