Burt Reynolds Quotes

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.

Burt Reynolds

• Nominations
• Academy Award
• Tracheotomy

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• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• I am so grateful for the service our veterans have given to our country. These men and women put their lives on the line for our safety and security, and we need to honor their service and our commitment to them.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Values
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Richard Nixon

• No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.

  

  David Louis Edelman
  • Content
  • Dependent
  • Stream

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

  

  Elle King
  • Up
  • Dirty

• My biggest beauty tip would be exfoliation, exfoliation, exfoliation! After a lifetime of almost no breakouts, I started having some pretty embarrassing ones and learned that if you don't exfoliate, your skin has a hard time shedding the old skin and therefore clogs your pores and causes zits.

  

  Amanda Crew
  • Time
  • Pretty

• A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • Good
  • Personality

• 'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Different
  • Animal

• Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Real
  • Violence

• I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Trying

• I know one thing; I’ll never win an Academy Award. But I'll be a rich son of bitch. And that's what it’s all about.

  

  Hal Needham
  • Thing
  • Academy Award

• Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Common

• I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hated
  • Wondered

• One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Scripture
  • Reasons
  • Christians

• God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • World
  • God
  • Family

• If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Know
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Nominations
  • Academy Award
  • Tracheotomy