Latest Burt Reynolds Quotes from Interviews

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• I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

  Burt Reynolds

  Team, Aces, Made

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• Gator [ McKlusky from White Lightning] was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a cousin to Bo. Bo was not a felon and definitely never wanted to hurt anybody - the final scene confirms that. He confesses to Buford T. Justice that he is right behind him. Gator McKlusky would not have done that.

  Burt Reynolds

  Cousin, Hurt, Heart

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

  Burt Reynolds

  Years, Car, President

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

  Burt Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Starting Over

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

  Burt Reynolds

  Thumbs Up, Car, Magic

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.

  Burt Reynolds

  Fun, Larks, Bandits

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

  Burt Reynolds

  Style, Patterns, Saws

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• I had known Hal [Needham] for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we'd get along well, and we did. He'd go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones.

  Burt Reynolds

  Lucky, Gigs, Wells

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.

  Burt Reynolds

  Strong, Dad, Car

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

• I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

  Burt Reynolds

  Dad, School, Night

  Source: www.caranddriver.com