Bandit Quotes

• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Piece
  • Tale
  • Strife

• It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do Smokey and the Bandit, and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Fun
  • Smokey
  • Jackie Gleason

• We got Sally Field onboard in Smokey and the Bandit and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Way
  • Filming
  • Smokey

• 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
  • Smokey

• 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.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Life
  • Smokey
  • Trans Am sales

• 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.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Bandit
  • Smokey
  • Picture Hal Needham

• Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wife
  • Exciting
  • Sounded