The best Quotes by Burt Reynolds

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

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

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

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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

I'll give you a limerick. Hold on. I've been preparing it. Have you heard tale of Scanlan the bard? Or Burt Reynolds if you look at his card. Always tries to get laid, sometimes with ladies he made. But I still respect him because rhyming is hard.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.

"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"

Florida is America's bas*ment: it's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.

Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.

Percy: "Grog wins. Again."
Vax'ildan: "F- me. Why do we always play drinking games with a guy twice our size?"
Vex'ahlia: "Because it's the fastest way to get drunk, obviously."

We don't do anything with dignity.

What's the best thing you've got? That's, you know, within reason.

Kashaw: "Is there a weak point?"
Scanlan: "Our plan."

Right. I have an intelligence of 6. I know what I'm doing.

Vax'ildan: "Good sir dwarf, clearly we are idiots."
Dungeon Master: "That's the first true thing you've said since you called me out of my meal."

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

We think too much and feel too little.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.