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.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.