I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I'm very selfish and worrying about my own problems. Burt Reynolds More Quotes by Burt Reynolds More Quotes From 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 passiontakenmistake I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. Burt Reynolds supporttwochildren 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 assattitudefootball 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 terrifiedimportantthinking 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. Burt Reynolds starting-overpeoplethinking 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 actorslandasking We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on. Burt Reynolds thumbs-upmagiccar 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 tiredguyappreciation 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 regretheartclass The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home. Burt Reynolds househomeart The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost. Burt Reynolds momentslost The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME! Burt Reynolds quarterbackimportantremember 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. Burt Reynolds banditslarksfun 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 hollywoodadventurethinking I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. Burt Reynolds wellsi-can Florida is a very healing place. Burt Reynolds floridahealing 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. Burt Reynolds cardadstrong Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people. Burt Reynolds good-friendwonderfulpeople 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 successfulusenew-york 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. Burt Reynolds cousinhurtheart
