[Burt in McCall`s magazine]: You get to a certain age, where you know you can`t go over the wall, but I`ll never get to the age where I can`t go through it.
[On his longtime fans]: First of all, it`s usually a sea of blue hair and I`m grateful and thankful that they`re still alive and around. I hope they understand that they are responsible for true joy. But the people in the seats were saying, put him in the...
[after he heard that Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was the favourite film of director Alfred Hitchcock]: I have had people who were very intellectual and my heroes, that have quietly said to me, "I loved Smokey and the Bandit!" And I said, "It`s alright be...
I`m going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I`ll be on stage telling a story, everyone`s going to applaud and laugh and then I`ll drop like a rock.