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

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

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 ….

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..

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

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 the….

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..

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 wir….

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….

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..

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 nominati….

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

All you really have in the end are your stories..

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….

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act..

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'v….

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 lef….

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….

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

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

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..