Quotes by Richard Burton - Page 1

I abhor mere prettiness.
Richard Burton / Actor
Mere
Abhor
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I'm so weak at saying no.
Richard Burton / Actor
Weak
Saying
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What an extraordinary world it is.
Richard Burton / Actor
Extraordinary
World
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I always speak Welsh to my family.
Richard Burton / Actor
Welsh
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Every word I write I suspect the next day.
Richard Burton / Actor
Suspect
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How drab people are, especially from the press.
Richard Burton / Actor
Press
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Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
Richard Burton / Actor
Beatty
Self Conscious
Warren
Warren Beatty
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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
Richard Burton / Actor
Diamond
Jewelry
Jewels
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Richard Burton / Actor
Fat
Lean
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If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton / Actor
Being The Best
Ifs
Rubbish
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Richard Burton / Actor
Know Who How
Indeed
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I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
Richard Burton / Actor
Men
Beer
Drinking
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Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.
Richard Burton / Actor
Henry
Robert
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The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
Richard Burton / Actor
Welsh
Actor
Bad
Bad Ones
Professional
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You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton / Actor
Please
Vicious
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Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.
Richard Burton / Actor
Creeps
Occasional
Myself Father I Am
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All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
Richard Burton / Actor
Bad Things
Rome
Always Me Bad
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If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
Richard Burton / Actor
Complexion
Life Chance Better
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I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
Richard Burton / Actor
Morning
Fog
Order
Rubbish
Somewhere
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Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
Richard Burton / Actor
Cool
Brilliant
Clarity
Days
Surgical
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I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
Richard Burton / Actor
Dispassionate
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton / Actor
Man Woman More
Actor
Less
Woman
While
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'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
Richard Burton / Actor
Almighty
Dull
Lousy
Flop
Robe
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I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
Richard Burton / Actor
War
Grew
Rugby
Stories
Heroes
Among
Played
Songs
Down
Sang
Pit
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton / Actor
Religion
Convinced
Study
More
Anything
Am
Man
Never
Religions
Himself
Worshipped
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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton / Actor
Funny
Drinking
Drunk
Humorous
Sober
Played
Remain
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Richard Burton / Actor
Men
Gold
Riches
Carries
Eats
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How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?
Richard Burton / Actor
Alien
Strangers
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Richard Burton / Actor
Islands
Sea
Wings
Cannot
Large
Prisons
Swallow
Wishing
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You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.
Richard Burton / Actor
Circle
Heap
Slip
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The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.
Richard Burton / Actor
Poet
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I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
Richard Burton / Actor
Guardian
Philip
Schoolmaster
Wing
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I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
Richard Burton / Actor
Baby
Furious
Love Is
Might
Our Love
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Child
Burn
Run
Each
Still
Her
Other
She
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I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.
Richard Burton / Actor
Tedium
Vitality
Neck
Tremendous
Operation
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My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.
Richard Burton / Actor
Hotter
Pistol
Turkey
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My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.
Richard Burton / Actor
Weeping
Funniest
Youngest
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton / Actor
Friendship
Animation
Decay
Fake Friends
Fake People
Ivy
New Life
Ruins
True Friendship
Wall
True
Embraces
False
Gives
Object
Supports
Walls
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I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.
Richard Burton / Actor
Please
Myself I Am Nothing
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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Richard Burton / Actor
Dream
Men
Events
Hazy
Memories
Strange
Tricks
Life Man Important
Memory
Preserve
The Most Important
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I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.
Richard Burton / Actor
Gold
Count
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One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Richard Burton / Actor
Journey
Home
Travel
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