Burt Reynolds Quotes

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

There are lots of colleagues for whom I have a great deal of personal affection. But they’re not necessarily the people I go do to get something done.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.

I've never been with a group of people for that long. I mean, even my family I don't think I know as intimately as the people I worked with on 'West Wing.'

I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.

I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone.

That's one of the things I like about our business: our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can.

I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.

There are certain shows or people that I would love to work with. One of the greatest things about our business is that if you get to fan out on people you might actually get to meet.

The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.