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.

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

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.

We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

Florida is a very healing place.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.