Burt Reynolds: I Was A Heart Attack Waiting To Happen

people.com:

To put it bluntly: "I was a heart attack waiting to happen," Burt Reynolds told PEOPLE Friday night.

The 74-year-old Evening Shade and Smokey and the Bandit actor looks great, "feels fabulous" and wants to" live to be 199" after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery in March, he said before receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award for 50 years of film, TV and theatrical work by the Palm Beach International Film Festival.

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Comments

[classykaren]

05:54 PM on 04/26/2010

Yes he is one of the worlds best actors just watch him in Best Friends with Goldie Hawn. We love ya Burt

[PoliticalJunkie65]

05:01 PM on 04/26/2010

(As I eat my cheeseburger)...aren't we all?

[cookerman45]

10:19 AM on 04/26/2010

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[magnetplanner]

08:38 PM on 04/25/2010

Good luck, Jack Horner. You're going to come back strong and make film history, right here on videotape!

[Gasparilla]

08:14 PM on 04/25/2010

From a fellow Floridian, Burt. All the best.

[AyeChart]

03:45 PM on 04/25/2010

Enjoyed "The Longest Yard" and "Sharky's Machine" and a few others. He was a darn fine athlete and not bad an actor.

[LMPE]

02:26 PM on 04/25/2010

Burt Reynolds had to have quintuple bypass surgery. Peter Sellers, Francois Truffaut and John Candy all died of heart attacks. Why can't Rush Limbaugh drop dead of one?

[magnetplanner]

08:46 PM on 04/25/2010

I'd rather see you root for a return of the Fairness Doctrine. That will cut deep into the pocketbooks of Rush, Hannity, Beck, Levin and the like.

[demorick]

11:29 AM on 04/25/2010

Best of luck, Burt!! I just had a stent put in my right coronary artery two weeks ago and feel 100% better!! Hope you're doing well.

[heidihaspaws]

09:37 AM on 04/25/2010

He's certainly had his ups and downs, and seems to come back stronger than before. Wish him well.

[Toddynho]

09:08 AM on 04/25/2010

I hope he lives to 199 too! I've always love this man, he's not the greatest actor in the world, but damn is he funny and genuine. I can't believe he's 74!