All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.