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..

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….

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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

Florida is a very healing place..

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..

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

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done..

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..

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

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

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..

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'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….

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 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….