Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynoldsis an American actor, director and producer. He starred in many films, such as Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit and Boogie Nights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 February 1936
CountryUnited States of America
healing florida
Florida is a very healing place.
new-york successful use
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.
appreciation tired guy
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.
play awards want
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.
wall age certain
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.
moments lost
The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
texan wells
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
basketball giving acting
My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
wells i-can
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
land actors asking
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
children two support
I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
good-friend people wonderful
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
opportunity air giving
If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right". If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.
regret heart class
I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.