Quotes from Burt Reynolds

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

Paul Newman is the personification of cool.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.

Sometimes I'm surprised people even know who I am.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

I'm going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I'll be on stage telling a story, everyone's going to applaud and laugh, and then I'll drop like a rock.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

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'm proud of 'Deliverance' because it was a very dangerous film to make, and they all said it couldn't be done, and we did it. And Jon Voight and I are now like brothers.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

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.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

I haven't been somebody who's been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they've handled their money. But they're not very good actors.

I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I'm very selfish and worrying about my own problems.

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.

I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.