It Was A Bit Of A Lark

The More The Art Dominated My Life And My House, The More The House Became A Home.

It Was A Bit Of A Lark When I Agreed To Do [smokey And The Bandit], And I Knew We'd Have Fun If We Could Get Jackie Gleason.

Smokey And The Bandit Was The First Picture [hal Needham ] Directed, And I Knew He Could Handle It. I Had Just Directed Gator, And He Saw My Style And Used That As A Pattern.

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.

But Then When I'm In A Halfway Successful Movie, It Irritates The Hell Out Of The Critics In New York, Because They'd Like To Kill My Pictures If They Could. So Maybe I'm Pretty Good In The Movie. Then They Use All These Words Like I'm 'surprisingly' Good, Or 'shockingly Enough,' I'm Good. It's Like I Crawled Out From Under A Magazine And They're Surprised I Can Act.