Burt Reynolds famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Funny #Fighting #Epic
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Marriage #Men #Average
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
-- Burt Reynolds

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

#Steps #Young #Persons
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Money
The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Moments #Lost
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

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

#Good Friend #People #Wonderful
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Texan #Wells
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

#New York #Successful #Use
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

#Regret #Heart #Class
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Wells
Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Sometimes #Losing Yourself
Florida is a very healing place.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Healing #Florida
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

#Appreciation #Tired #Guy
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

#Land #Asking #Actors
You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Father #Men
All you really have in the end are your stories.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Stories #Ends
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

#Fans #Matter #Thanks
There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Awards #Hollywood #Idiot
The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Art #Home #House

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