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

In: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43

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More from Burt Reynolds

We’re only here for a little while, and you’ve got to have some fun, right? I don’t take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there’s some sickness with people like that. That’s why I live in Florida.
“Burt Reynolds Has Made Mistakes. But He Regrets Nothing.” in The New York Times (23 March 2018). Chosen as the Quote of the Day for 6 September 2018.
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You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Attributed to Reynolds in: Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1984. p. 143
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More about movies

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.
Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers
I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”
Steve Martinborn 1945
You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martinborn 1945

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