Burton's Quotes

#1. For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

Eva Green

#2. Half there, and half not," Grimalkin said, having suddenly appeared over Burton's shoulder. "Sounds implausible to me.

James A. Owen

#3. Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

Anne Hathaway

#4. We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.

Alex Kurtzman

#5. Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

Frederick Lenz

#6. I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Charles Dance

#7. The final two issues of the Englehart/Rogers/Austin collaboration, Detective Comics #475 and #476, are now esteemed alongside the greatest Batman stories ever created and would provide the seed for Tim Burton's 1989 feature film. In

Glen Weldon

#8. I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005.

Rick Wakeman

#9. A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful.
She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman.

Sarah Burton

#10. I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.

Tim Burton

#11. One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Tim Burton

#12. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

Jessie Burton

#13. He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.

Christian F. Burton

#14. Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

Helena Bonham Carter

#15. I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

LeVar Burton

#16. There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Scott Stossel

#17. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Hilarie Burton

#18. Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Robert Burton

#19. She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.

Jessie Burton

#20. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Tim Burton

#21. People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Tim Burton

#22. What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

#23. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cliff Burton

#24. Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

Sarah Burton

#25. I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Tim Burton

#26. Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

Tim Burton

#27. I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.

Johnny Depp

#28. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.

Jessie Burton

#29. Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Alan Dean Foster

#30. I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Tim Burton

#31. The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.

Jessie Burton

#32. We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Dan Burton

#33. There's nothing wrong with us," Anya said. "You, on the other hand, are way too tense. You probably need to get laid. Maybe Grant Cassidy can help you with that.

Jaci Burton

#34. It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

LeVar Burton

#35. And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

LeVar Burton

#36. This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Richard Burton

#37. I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

Hilarie Burton

#38. For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

LeVar Burton

#39. Mick hadn't become the NFL'S leading quarterback by lying back and playing dead.

Jaci Burton

#40. A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.

Ann Burton

#41. Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

Agatha Christie

#42. That's what love is all about, babe. Forgiveness.

Jaci Burton

#43. It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.

Jaci Burton

#44. There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Tim Burton

#45. I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.

Jeff Burton

#46. I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

Sarah Burton

#47. Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?

LeVar Burton

#48. My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.

Tim Burton

#49. Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

Tim Burton

#50. The reality of his predicament hit him hard. There's no way out of this now, save arrest or death. Professor Ratib had made it sound so academic, but it wasn't. Regardless of whether we're attacking human- or infrastructure-related targets, it's terrorism. If Husam thinks that I'm a risk, I'm dead.

Christian F. Burton

#51. Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!

Burton Watson

#52. The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you're watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it's over. When

Matthew Amster-Burton

#53. It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

Burton Cummings

#54. You need to relax. Maybe we should stop at a bar for alcohol first."
"For me or for them?"
"For them, of course. It's important to get them loaded early in the day. Makes them easier to control.

Jaci Burton

#55. Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

David Zucker

#56. I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

Gabrielle Burton

#57. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

Karen Abbott

#58. I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

Hilarie Burton

#59. Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.

Hilarie Burton

#60. The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

Lance Burton

#61. It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

Lance Burton

#62. Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.'

Sarah Burton

#63. It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

Tim Burton

#64. Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't know,' and you go home and do it. He's the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn't say a word, and you know exactly what it means.

Caroline Thompson

#65. Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

Hilarie Burton

#66. As he stretched out his legs, Siraj let out a deep sigh and smiled. I wonder what Prince Bahir's blonde surprise will be wearing. I'm guessing it won't be a habiya.

Christian F. Burton

#67. We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

LeVar Burton

#68. That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

Tim Burton

#69. Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Gary Burton

#70. Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.

Bob Burton

#71. Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

Sarah Burton

#72. I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.

Matt Ryan

#73. I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

Lance Burton

#74. You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That's what disciples do!.

Linda K. Burton

#75. And you know what happens when you fall in love with someone? You want to help that person. You want that person to grow. You want what's best for them.

Jaci Burton

#76. What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

Burton Rascoe

#77. A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

Jeff Burton

#78. Sylvia Day's writing is stunningly sensual.

Jaci Burton

#79. Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

Tim Burton

#80. Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.

David Edelstein

#81. I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

Hilarie Burton

#82. A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Burton Rascoe

#83. Liz: "Talking is overrated."
Gavin: "Now you sound like a guy."
Liz: "That's why you like me."
Gavin: "Because you're a guy?

Jaci Burton

#84. The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.

Tim Burton

#85. These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

Richard D. Zanuck

#86. It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

Burton Malkiel

#87. It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Tim Burton

#88. sometimes it's hard to love a person you know too well.

Jessie Burton

#89. Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Neel Burton

#90. I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Tim Burton

#91. I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

Kate Burton

#92. Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Robert A. Burton

#93. The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

Tim Burton

#94. Sometimes your world falls apart. And it's okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble

Jaci Burton

#95. One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Tim Burton

#96. If on a friend's bookshelf
You cannot find Joyce or Sterne
Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,
You are in danger, face the fact,
So kick him first or punch him hard
And from him hide behind a curtain.

Alexander Theroux

#97. A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Burton G. Malkiel

#98. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Randy Bachman

#99. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

Burton Malkiel

#100. The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

Burton J. Hendrick