Burt Reynolds Quotes

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.

Burt Reynolds

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• I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Technology

• The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Know
  • Community
  • Day

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Christmas
  • Pajamas
  • Elves

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I just have an inability to lie.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Just
  • Lie
  • Inability

• I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Home
  • Day

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Drama
  • Boring

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Like
  • Never
  • Something

• I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Movies
  • Say
  • Transition

• There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Selling
  • Extraordinary

• Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Family

• Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Four

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• What happens when an industry transitions from using one or more 'smart' and centralized networks to using a common, decentralized, open, and dumb network? A tsunami of innovation that was pent up for decades is suddenly released.

  

  Andreas Antonopoulos
  • Up
  • Smart
  • Innovation

• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • People
  • Encouragement
  • Rare

• 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.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Movie
  • New York
  • Pictures