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

I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

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.

Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

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.

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.