Burt Reynolds Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. — Burt Reynolds

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. — Burt Reynolds

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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

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

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style ... like me. — Burt Reynolds

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

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

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. — Burt Reynolds

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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

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

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. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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

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. — Burt Reynolds

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home. — Burt Reynolds

Florida is a very healing place. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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

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. — Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years. — Burt Reynolds

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds

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. — Burt Reynolds