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Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence starring in television series such as Gunsmoke , Hawk , and Dan August .

His breakout film role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance . Reynolds played the leading role in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as The Longest Yard , Smokey and the Bandit , Semi-Tough , Hooper , Smokey and the Bandit II , The Cannonball Run and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas .

After a number of box office failures, Reynolds returned to television, starring in the sitcom Evening Shade . He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Boogie Nights .

✵ 11. February 1936 – 6. September 2018
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Famous 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.”

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"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.

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

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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.”

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"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.”

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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.”

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

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