The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956