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Florida is a very healing place.
It's always possible to spend more money.
Paul Newman is the personification of cool.
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
All you really have in the end are your stories.
Sometimes I'm surprised people even know who I am.
There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.
The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.
If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME!
I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.
If I was as tough as I'm made out to be in movies, I wouldn't have to worry.
There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'
There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.
I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.
I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.
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.
I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.
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.
Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.
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.
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.
You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.
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.
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
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.
Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.
I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.
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.
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.
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.