Burt Reynolds Quotes

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I love being married. It's great. But I hate arguing. I hate fighting. You know what I do now? When we get in an argument, I just take her side against me. It's just easier; it goes quicker. She's like, "What's wrong with you?" And I'm like, "I know! Damn it! Argh!"

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Created a word game to play with a person you're fighting with. Silent Treatment. Nothing happens until one of you quietly says, Hey, you hungry?

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

I'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.