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
wells i-can
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
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.
moments lost
The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
laughing missing stories
Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sometimes losing-yourself loses
Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
forgiving dull exciting
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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.
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.
mistake taken responsibility
That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.
way failing best-way
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.