Top 100 Quotes About Burt
#1. I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
Burt Ward
#2. 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 nominations.
Burt Reynolds
#3. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
Pharrell Williams
#4. I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
Burt Bacharach
#5. 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
#6. The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
Burt Shavitz
#7. For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
Burt Rutan
#8. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
#9. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
Burt Lancaster
#10. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
Burt Reynolds
#11. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Burt Reynolds
#12. The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Gene Siskel
#13. True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.
Angela Burt-Murray
#14. People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.
Grant McCracken
#15. There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
Burt Reynolds
#16. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!
Carolyn Keene
#17. I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
Burt Ward
#18. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#19. 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.
Burt Reynolds
#20. 'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
David A.R. White
#22. A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Burt Bacharach
#23. Uncle Burt's round face, mixing bowl bangs of greying blond locks and toothless smile made him look more like an emoticon than a judge.
Kenneth Eade
#24. 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
#25. had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's
Daniel Keyes
#26. When sober, which he hadn't been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul."
Book 2 "Having it
Jamie Scallion
#27. One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Stephen Burt
#28. I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
Jill Sobule
#29. I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette
#30. I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
Burt Rutan
#31. Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
Burt Reynolds
#32. She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."
Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#33. I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
Burt Glinn
#34. Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.
Burt Ward
#35. Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.
Burt Rutan
#36. There were such sounds as are not heard in daylight - moon sounds and cloud sounds and sounds of dark wind; branches talked and other small voices answered in anxious undertones.
Katharine Newlin Burt
#37. I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.
Burt Shavitz
#38. The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.
Burt Prelutsky
#39. 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
#40. NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.
Burt Rutan
#41. I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#43. Everything looks nonsensical before it works.
Burt Rutan
#44. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#45. On our show, I must tell you, it was ... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?
Burt Ward
#46. Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy? Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)
William D. Burt
#47. Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."
~ "The Hole
Guy Burt
#48. I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
Burt Ward
#49. If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.
Burt Shavitz
#50. If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Burt Prelutsky
#51. The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
Burt Reynolds
#52. I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
Burt Young
#53. Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.
Burt Rutan
#54. In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
Burt Rutan
#57. With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?
Burt Hochberg
#58. ...No, the gentle will not have to kill the table-pounders, thus stultifying their own instincts, for the noisy, being bullies, will melt away at the first sight of the army of the soft-spoken.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#59. There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.
Burt Rutan
#60. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.
Alexandra Burt
#61. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
Burt Reynolds
#62. If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
Burt Bacharach
#63. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
Burt Bacharach
#64. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
Giancarlo Esposito
#65. Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
Burt Lancaster
#66. There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit ... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.
Burt Rutan
#67. Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.
Burt Rutan
#68. Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
Burt Ward
#69. The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds.
Jon Ronson
#70. Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Burt Bacharach
#71. I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
David Sax
#72. NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
Burt Rutan
#73. A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.
Burt Rutan
#74. Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.
Burt Rutan
#75. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.
Burt Rutan
#76. My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds
#77. I walked out of class one day and I never went back.
Burt Lancaster
#78. You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
Burt Shavitz
#79. Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.
Burt Ward
#80. especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter).
Andrew Lang
#81. Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
Burt Shavitz
#82. What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.
Burt Shavitz
#83. It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
Burt Rutan
#84. Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
Burt Rutan
#85. I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Burt Bacharach
#86. I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
Burt Shavitz
#87. In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.
Burt Ward
#88. You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
Burt Reynolds
#89. There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
Burt Reynolds
#90. In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
Burt Rutan
#91. I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
Garret Dillahunt
#92. We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
Burt Rutan
#93. You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.
Burt Lancaster
#94. They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.
Burt Lancaster
#95. If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
Jake Johnson
#96. All you really have in the end are your stories.
Burt Reynolds
#97. Tea shook his head in dismay. "This is the end, Burt
Jamie Scallion
#98. You know, darkness is a funny thing. Little by little, it creeps up on you and before you know it, you can't escape it
Mackie Burt
#99. I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.
Burt Bacharach
#100. With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
Burt Rutan
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