List of Burt Reynolds Quotes

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.

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 Love Stroker Ace. I Love The Whole Team. Jim Nabors Really Stole The Show, And Ned Beatty, Well I've Made More Of My Movies With Ned Beatty Than Anybody Else.

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.

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.

I Had Known Hal [needham] For A While By The Time He Moved In, So I Was Sure We'd Get Along Well, And We Did. He'd Go Off And Do His Gigs And I Would Do Mine, And When We Were Lucky We Got To Work On The Same Ones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jay Leno Is Wonderful And A Good Friend, But It Will Always Be The Carson Show To A Lot Of People.