Top 75 Quotes About Richard Burton
#1. the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.
Sam Miller
#2. I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
Gale Gordon
#3. I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'
Jerry Reed
#4. Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton)
Elizabeth Taylor
#5. 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
#6. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
Lance Morrow
#7. Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi
#8. Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Ellen Goodman
#9. I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.
Haskell Wexler
#10. I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
John Cullum
#11. The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
Charlie Rose
#12. Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
Julie Andrews
#13. It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.
Julianna Margulies
#14. Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.
Jeremy Irons
#15. Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!
Timothy Dalton
#16. Richard Burton is one of my heroes.
Mark Shand
#17. I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.
Nina Bawden
#18. Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
Anthony Hopkins
#19. Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate.
Elizabeth Taylor
#20. Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
Frank Bough
#21. Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
Peter O'Toole
#22. Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
Aneurin Barnard
#23. I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis
#25. 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
#27. another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.
Craig Brown
#29. 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
#30. Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Richard Francis Burton
#32. I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
Sarah Burton
#33. All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.
Richard Francis Burton
#35. Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Richard Burton
#36. [ ... ] it is not easy to talk [ ... ] religion to men who measure excellence by forbidden meats [ ... ]
Richard Francis Burton
#37. A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Richard Burton
#38. The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.
Richard Francis Burton
#39. I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
Richard Burton
#40. An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton
#41. The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.
Richard Francis Burton
#42. 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
#43. I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton
#44. When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton
#46. The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
Richard Burton
#47. Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink,
But is the dance less full of fun?
Richard Francis Burton
#49. Ah! gay the day with shine of sun,
and bright the breeze, and blithe the
throng
Met on the River-bank to play,
when I was young, when I was young
Richard Francis Burton
#50. I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
Richard Burton
#51. Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Richard Francis Burton
#52. All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
Richard Francis Burton
#54. 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
#56. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
Richard Francis Burton
#57. Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
Richard Francis Burton
#59. You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton
#60. This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
Richard Burton
#61. They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Richard Burton
#63. If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton
#64. I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.
Anna Akana
#65. If you can't laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I'd rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.
Richard Francis Burton
#66. I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate ... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.
Richard Francis Burton
#67. 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 Francis Burton
#69. And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan
Richard Francis Burton
#70. Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Richard Francis Burton
#72. Of the gladdest moments in 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 Civilization, man feels once more happy.
Richard Francis Burton
#73. Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again:
Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Richard Francis Burton
#74. Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
Richard Francis Burton
#75. These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.
Richard D. Zanuck
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