Burt Reynolds

Actor

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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 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'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.

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.

I've tried very hard to be thought of as a serious actor.

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.

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

It's always possible to spend more money.

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

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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

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.

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

The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part of the astronaut for me. Taking that role would have been a way to get all the things I wanted.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.

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

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.

I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.

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

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