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.

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

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

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.

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.

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

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

My administration will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.