Smokey And The Bandit Was The First

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.

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.

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.

Florida Is A Very Healing Place.

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.