These Buford T Justice quotes will motivate you. Sheriff Buford T. Justice is a fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the films Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983).
He is a determined, foul-mouthed Texas sheriff, from the real Montague County or the fictional Portage County at various points, and he chases “the Bandit” all over the Southern United States.
Best Buford T Justice Quotes
- “One of these days… One of these days… Pow! Right in the kisser!” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you think you have it, then you have it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.” ~ Jackie Gleason
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“Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can’t resist the impulse.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I have a ‘Play The Melody’ philosophy. It means don’t over arrange, don’t make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.” ~ Jackie Gleason
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“I’m no alcoholic. I’m a drunkard. There’s a difference. A drunkard doesn’t like to go to meetings.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “A lot of people say, ‘Well, I like a challenge. ‘I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The worst thing you can do with money is save it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.” ~ Jackie Gleason
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“I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality…. So I knew that I had to create some characters.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The best part of you ran down your mother’s legs.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I didn’t have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I always knew what I was doing.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.” ~ Jackie Gleason