Burt Reynolds Quotes

All you really have in the end are your stories.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.