88 Quotes by Burt Reynolds

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

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.

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.

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.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".

The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME!

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine.