Top 100 Quotes About Burt
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!
Carolyn Keene
#5. '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
#6. 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
#7. had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's
Daniel Keyes
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
David Sax
#16. especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter).
Andrew Lang
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Tea shook his head in dismay. "This is the end, Burt
Jamie Scallion
#20. One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
Peter Jackson
#21. But it's new, Millie. The other one is broken," Burt had said brightly. "This is horrible," she repeated, almost in tears now. "You can't just throw old friends away like they don't mean anything and then go and buy a new one..." She paused. "Even if they do look the same." As
Jamie Scallion
#22. 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
#23. My old man tells me every chance he gets I'm "style over substance" and that I've never done anything of value in my life. I'm fifteen. What does he expect? Being "cool as" is the only thing anyone cares about."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#24. My head's swimming. Sorry, sis. I'm a useless brother. You're best off shot of me. - Burt
Jamie Scallion
#25. I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
Lena Headey
#26. He felt that his life was about to turn around, but Burt had no way of knowing that his fairy tale would eventually turn into a nightmare.
Jillian Cornell
#27. I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
Eliza Doolittle
#28. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.
Daniel Keyes
#29. Yes," said Burt, and he looked pleased. But I hadn't spoken. I considered this for a moment.
Barbara O'Brien
#30. Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber
#31. I got you this. I held out the brown, fluffy bear. To replace Burt. I pulled his eyes off and everything.
Annabel Pitcher
#32. Does this make us the biggest band on the planet or what?" Burt
Jamie Scallion
#33. To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter,
Steven Johnson
#34. Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen.
Steve Burt
#35. He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.
Kristen Callihan
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#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. My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!
Chloe Bridges
#41. Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis Diller
#42. I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.
Alison Sweeney
#43. When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
Kirk Douglas
#44. We've been thinking about stage costumes for the 'Satellites' section," Burt said brightly. "I think we should all dress as an element."
Egg frowned. "How do you dress up as water?"
"I've thought about that and it would be a blue leotard and white kilt," Burt replied earnestly.
Jamie Scallion
#45. 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
#46. I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'
Brian Helgeland
#47. I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
Aretha Franklin
#48. Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#49. I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
Mads Mikkelsen
#50. 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
#51. I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen," Eleanor said. "For religious reasons.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack
#53. I'm not wearing no make-up!"
Burt - Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#54. I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
Peter Capaldi
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
#62. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
Burt Lancaster
#63. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
Burt Reynolds
#64. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Burt Reynolds
#65. True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.
Angela Burt-Murray
#66. There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
Burt Reynolds
#67. 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
#68. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#69. 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
#71. A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Burt Bacharach
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.
Burt Rutan
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#85. Everything looks nonsensical before it works.
Burt Rutan
#86. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."
~ "The Hole
Guy Burt
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Burt Prelutsky
#93. The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
Burt Reynolds
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#99. With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?
Burt Hochberg
#100. ...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
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