The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

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.

Florida is a very healing place.

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.

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

It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.

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.