Richard Burton Quotes

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Richard Burton

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 10, 1925

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Richard Burton

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

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Richard Burton

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

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Richard Burton

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

Richard Burton

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Richard Burton

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Richard Burton

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

Richard Burton

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Richard Burton

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Richard Burton

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Richard Burton

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

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

Richard Burton

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

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

Richard Burton

What an extraordinary world it is.

Richard Burton

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Richard Burton

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