Burt Reynolds Quotes

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 women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • World
  • Art
  • Stealing

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Small
  • Small Things

• Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Help
  • Me
  • Always

• I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Together
  • End
  • Puzzle

• I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Hollywood more money than cinemas, DVDs, and everything else combined.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Life
  • House
  • Death

• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Idea
  • Simply
  • No Idea

• The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

  

  Brit Hume
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • People
  • Film
  • Bandit