Jerry Reed

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.