Burt Reynolds Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
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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.
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I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
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I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.
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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.
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If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
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If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
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The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
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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.
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The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME!
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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.
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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.
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Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.
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Gator [ McKlusky from White Lightning] was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a cousin to Bo. Bo was not a felon and definitely never wanted to hurt anybody - the final scene confirms that. He confesses to Buford T. Justice that he is right behind him. Gator McKlusky would not have done that.
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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
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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.
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My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
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Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
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I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
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There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
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All you really have in the end are your stories.
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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.
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