88 Quotes by Burt Reynolds

Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

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.

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.

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.

I'm proud of 'Deliverance' because it was a very dangerous film to make, and they all said it couldn't be done, and we did it. And Jon Voight and I are now like brothers.

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