Burt Reynolds Quotes

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

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.

If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.

That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.

If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right". If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Florida is a very healing place.

A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine.

Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.