But Enough About Me: A Memoir

Burt Reynolds · Jon Winokur

Nov 2015 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

A scandalous, sentimental, no-holds-barred, New York Times bestselling memoir from one of Hollywood’s most legendary stars.
 
Burt Reynolds was a Hollywood leading man known for his legendary performances, sex symbol status, and infamous Hollywood romances. In his decades of stardom, Reynolds saw it all. But Enough About Me will, in his words, “call out the assholes,” try to make amends for “being the asshole myself on too many occasions,” and pay homage to the superstars and ordinary heroes he came to love and respect.

Beginning with Reynolds’s adolescence as a notable football player in South Florida and the devastating car accident that ended his sports career and helped steer him toward acting, But Enough About Me then chronicles Reynolds’s meteoric rise to fame. From Oscar nominations, to the spread in Cosmopolitan magazine, to the financial decisions that took him from rich to poor and back again, Reynolds shares the wisdom that came from his many highs and lows.

He also opens up about his romances and breakups with some of Hollywood’s leading women, including the “two loves of his life,” Dinah Shore and Sally Field, and his turbulent relationship with Loni Anderson, to whom he was forced to pay record-setting amounts of alimony and child support after the couple divorced. Through it all, Reynolds reflects on his personal pitfalls and recoveries and focuses on his legacy as a father and acting teacher.

Ratings and reviews

Glad I picked up his book, was seriously worth every penny. Burt Reynolds will always be someone I admire for the rest of my life. Not only is this guy a wonderful man, but he deserves everything and more. There was a lot of information in this book I never knew about Burt. Well written and a page turner.

Mr. Reynolds organic approach left me feeling as if he's sitting next to me recounting his memories. His honesty is refreshing without being defensive or devicive regarding his multitude of interactions with Hollywood's elite. Loving this book as much as his Smokey & the Bandit movies. Thank you, Mr. Reynolds! You authored a great read.

I felt like he was telling me stories personally. Well worth the time. I would love to meet him in person and chat.

About the author

Burt Reynolds began his acting career in TV westerns before his breakout film performance in Deliverance. His other leading roles include films such as The Longest Yard, Hustle, Gator, Smokey and the Bandit, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Striptease, and Boogie Nights, for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Reynolds also received an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his starring role on the popular sitcom Evening Shade. He died at the age of eighty-two in 2018.

Jon Winokur is the author of two dozen nonfiction books, including Advice to Writers, The Big Book of Irony, and the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Garner Files, co-authored with James Garner. He lives in Los Angeles.