Sometimes I'm surprised people even know who I am.

I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.

There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'

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.

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous -- like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag -- I felt great.

I'm proud of 'Deliverance' because it was a very dangerous film to make, and they all said it couldn't be done, and we did it. And Jon Voight and I are now like brothers.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

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.

Florida is a very healing place.

The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback -- ME!

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.

I've tried very hard to be thought of as a serious actor.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

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

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.