Burt Lancaster Quotes

#1. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

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#2. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,

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#3. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

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#4. The first duty of life is to live.

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#5. My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

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#6. Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

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#7. I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

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#8. You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

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#9. They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

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#10. I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

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#11. You have to fight against being an antique.

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#12. Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

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#13. I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

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#14. You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

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#15. Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

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#16. I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

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#17. I had the luck of having an obedient body.

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#18. I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

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#19. Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

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#20. My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

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#21. I feel that I am a good actor.

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#22. I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

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#23. I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

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#24. Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

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#25. As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

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#26. A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

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#27. I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

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#28. I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

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#29. Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

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#30. Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

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