"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.
- Burt Reynolds Quote (RogerEbert)

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
- Burt Reynolds Quote

I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
- Burt Reynolds Quote

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
- Burt Reynolds Quote

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
- Burt Reynolds Quote

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

"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.
- Burt Reynolds Quote (RogerEbert)

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
- Burt Reynolds Quote