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.

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.

There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.

Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?

It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.

The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.