Burt Reynolds Quotes

“We’re only here for a little while, and you’ve got to have some fun, right? I don’t take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there’s some sickness with people like that. That’s why I live in Florida.”

Burt Reynolds

"Burt Reynolds Has Made Mistakes. But He Regrets Nothing." in The New York Times (23 March 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/movies/burt-reynolds-the-last-movie-star.html. Chosen as the Quote of the Day for 6 September 2018.

“When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.”

Burt Reynolds

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

Burt Reynolds

Source: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43

“I don’t know why I think this, but maybe I’ve got my best work ahead. Maybe I’ll be putting my teeth in the glass, and maybe it will be a very different kind of role, but I want to do something where I’m not driving a car or a truck, where it’s real. Something that people wouldn’t expect me to do. Probably a man in search of himself. But we’re always searching for ourselves anyway.”

Burt Reynolds

"Burt Reynolds Has Made Mistakes. But He Regrets Nothing." in The New York Times (23 March 2018)

“I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.”

Burt Reynolds

Attributed to Reynolds in: Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. p. 129

“You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.”

Burt Reynolds

Attributed to Reynolds in: Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1984. p. 143