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.
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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.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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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.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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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.
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My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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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.
