Richard Burton
Actor
1925-11-10
Quotes by Richard Burton
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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.
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
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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.
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You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
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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.
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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.
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I always speak Welsh to my family.
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
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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.
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race.
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