That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.

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.

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

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.