Burt Reynolds Quotations

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

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

I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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

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

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 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.

Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There's no appreciation of actors and no sense of history.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Florida is a very healing place.

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

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.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".

The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME!

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

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.

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.

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.

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

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.

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

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

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style...like me.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

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

He was a wonderful man and a fine actor, and we will all miss him.

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

Now, in the middle of the night, you hear me wake up in this cold sweat going, 'Bond, James Bond',

I just couldn't handle his act -- his Jim Bowie knife on his belt, cowboy hat, and fringed jacket,

He put FSU on the map in the early years. He was an innovator who brought a whole new style of football with the I formation. I love him and I'll miss him.

He put FSU on the map in the early years. He was an innovator, who brought a whole new style of football with the I formation. I love him and I'll miss him.