It Was A Bit Of A Lark

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.

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.

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.

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.