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.
If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me. - Burt Reynolds
If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
- Burt Reynolds
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull. - Burt Reynolds
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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
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.
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
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.
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness. - Burt Reynolds
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. - Burt Reynolds
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. - Burt Reynolds
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything. - Burt Reynolds
Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
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 def… - Burt Reynolds
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 def…
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