Top 48 Quotes About Burt Reynolds
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
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#4. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
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#5. 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
#6. There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
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#7. 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.
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#8. '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
#10. 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
#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#14. The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
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#15. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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#16. 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
#17. I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
David Sax
#18. My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
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#19. You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
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#20. There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
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#21. 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
#22. All you really have in the end are your stories.
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#23. 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.
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#24. If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style ... like me.
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#25. When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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#26. I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
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#27. Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
William Devane
#28. 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.
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#29. Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
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#30. If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.
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#31. Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.
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#32. Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.
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#33. The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.
Rich Cohen
#34. 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
#35. It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
Charles Nelson Reilly
#36. When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce Dern
#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
Tom Selleck
#40. 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.
Burt Reynolds
#41. Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis Diller
#42. You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds ... and Francis Ford Coppola.
Paul Reubens
#43. Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
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#44. I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
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#45. Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#46. I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
Burt Reynolds
#47. The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
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#48. My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.
William Earl Brown
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