Burt Reynolds movie quotes

“You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.”
Burt Reynolds

“Excuse me sir, but your ass is on fire. I bet you can't wait to get back home to Canada and stick it in the snow.”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit

“I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out.”
Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner

“- Paula McCullen: Breasts too large, Richard? Every female character you create has breasts too large.
- Richard Babson: Mmm... but I make them suffer for it.”
Goldie Hawn - Paula McCullen
Burt Reynolds - Richard Babson

- Blaine Bingham: Did you know that Chicago means, "the smell of wild onions"?
- John L. Sullivan IV: Did you New York just means, "New York"?
Christopher Reeve - Blaine Bingham
Burt Reynolds - John L. Sullivan IV

“You must have taken dance lessons. You have natural rhythm, unusual in a whippet.”

Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin

“- Buddy Evans: What are those?
- Ms. Werner: What are what?
- Buddy Evans: Those things on your teeth.
- Ms. Werner: They're braces.
- Buddy Evans: I know they're braces. But do you have to wear them?
- Ms. Werner: No, they're the latest in costume jewelry. Of course I have to wear them.”
Burt Reynolds - Buddy Evans
Carol Locatell - Ms. Werner

“- Itchy Itchiford: Charlie, let me think about this...
- Charlie B. Barkin: No! Don't think! From now on, I'll do the thinking!”
Dom DeLuise - Itchy Itchiford
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin

“- 'Bandit': We're talking about $400,000, do you understand that? This is our last chance! $400,000!
- Cledus Snow: I understand $400,000 and I would like to get my share of $400,000, but I ain't gonna kill an elephant to get it.”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit
Jerry Reed - Cledus

“- Gillian Bromley: You can't be serious!
- Jack Rhodes: Why, I've never been more serious in my life.
- Gillian Bromley: Why are you imitating Tony Curtis?
- Jack Rhodes: I'm not imitating Tony Curtis, I'm imitating Cary Grant.
- Gillian Bromley: You're doing Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant...
- Jack Rhodes: Oh...
- Gillian Bromley: Cary Grant...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lesley-Anne Down - Gillian Bromley
Burt Reynolds - Jack Rhodes

“- Bandit: We have a chance. A big chance to make a run, for some big bucks. Eighty thousand of them.
- Cledus Snow: Oh, really? What we gonna do, kidnap the Pope or somethin?”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit
Jerry Reed - Cledus

“- Stroker Ace: I thought all actors were egotistical hypochondriac sissies.
- Doc Seegle: Well, they are. But I like'em.”
Burt Reynolds - Stroker Ace
John Byner - Doc Seegle

“Why are you getting married? Did she knock you up?”

Burt Reynolds - Billy Clyde Puckett

“How could he be afraid of heights. He's so tall!”

Burt Reynolds - John L. Sullivan IV

“- Charlie B. Barkin: Hey! I know we're all dead up here, but so's the music. How about heating it up?
- Vera: Honey, you know it!”
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin
Candy Devine - Vera

My father always told me: "You can do anything you want in life, so long as you go to law school".
Burt Reynolds - Buddy Evans

“- Ski: My life is worth more than a piece of film.
- Sonny Hooper: I'll tell you exactly what your life is worth. Your life is worth fifty thousand dollars, that's the price you put on it when you got behind this wheel!”
Jan-Michael Vincent - Ski
Burt Reynolds - Sonny Hooper

“- Charlie B. Barkin: Hey, wait. That looks like a water main.
- Itchy Itchiford: Naw, water mains are green. This is red!
- Charlie B. Barkin: Itchy, you're color blind. You've always been color blind.
- Itchy Itchiford: That's true, but this is green.”
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin
Dom DeLuise - Itchy Itchiford

“- Flo: She's burning up a fever, Charlie. She could have pneumonia!
- Charlie B. Barkin: Think she needs a vet?
- Flo: Charlie, she's a little girl. She needs a doctor.
- Charlie B. Barkin: Doctor? I don't know any doctors... I'll find one!”
Loni Anderson - Flo
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin

“- Marlon Borunki: It's very interesting the way you woke up cursing. A large percentage of attempted suicides wake up with exclamations of hostility.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: Where am I?
- Marlon Borunki: 92% of them ask that. You're in La Playa.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: The nut house?
- Marlon Borunki: That's a cruel label. We prefer, booby hatch.”
Dom DeLuise - Marlon Borunki
Burt Reynolds - Wendell Sonny Lawson

“- Marlon Borunki: You don't like me any more.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I like you, Marlon. I like you, I really do.
- Marlon Borunki: You do?
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I do. But you've got to understand. Tell me you understand.
- Marlon Borunki: I understand. I love you, Sonny. I really do.
- Wendell Sonny Lawson: I love youto, Marlon.
- Marlon...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dom DeLuise - Marlon Borunki
Burt Reynolds - Wendell Sonny Lawson

“- Bandit: What's a Texas county mounty doing in Arkansas?
- Cledus: I don't know.
- Carrie: I don't know.
- Bandit: Well who the heck knows?
- Cledus: I really don't know.”
Burt Reynolds - Bandit
Jerry Reed - Cledus
Sally Field - Carrie

“- Floyd Gondolli: This here's the future. Videotape tells the truth.
- Jack Horner: Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? I'm a filmmaker, which is why I will never make a movie on tape.”
Philip Baker Hall - Floyd Gondolli
Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner

“- Carl Henry: What about the fear?
- Joe Tanto: It's gone.
- Carl Henry: The fear is never gone.”
Burt Reynolds - Carl Henry
Sylvester Stallone - Joe Tanto

“- Arch: When you find him, you got to put him down.
- Sharky: I'll put him down!
- Arch: Sharky...
- Sharky: Yeah?
- Arch: Put his ass in the ground, you hear me?
- Sharky: Yeah.”

Bernie Casey - Arch
Burt Reynolds - Sharky