Burt Reynolds Quotes

Florida is a very healing place.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he’s probably going to step on them anyway.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

I’m really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I’m the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I’m a lot more serious than that.

Our family really didn’t have a car; we had my dad’s police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that’s what I was driving when I had a wreck. I’m lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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.

I’m paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

I’ve always gotten along well with Texans. You’ve got to.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.