Raymond Burr Quotes

#1. I do not agree with Thomas Wolfe ... about anything. You can go home again as long as you don't expect home to be what it was when you left it. Or you don't expect yourself to be what you were when you left home.

Raymond Burr

#2. Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

Raymond Burr

#3. You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.

Raymond Burr

#4. I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

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#5. I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

Raymond Burr

#6. Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

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#7. Consider this a fair warning.

Stieg Larsson

#8. I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

Raymond Burr

#9. When Courtney appeared from the hallway, a whisper of a smile emerged on her eerily familiar face; Spencer's legs dissolved into Jell-O. Aria let out a small squeak.

Sara Shepard

#10. Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

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#11. I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks ... and I cook in any language.

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#12. People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

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#13. When perception and reality collide, we grow.

Keylee Dawn Austin

#14. Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

Guru Nanak

#15. My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.

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#16. When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

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#17. I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

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#18. Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

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#19. I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me ... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.'

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#20. I love wines, except when I'm dieting.

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#21. He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

Meg Rosoff

#22. I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day ... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

Raymond Burr

#23. Seriously - quite seriously - I firmly believe that marriage is to be enjoyed and shared.

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#24. Mother would be in real trouble right now.

Robert Bloch

#25. I am shy - going to parties kills me.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#26. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave,

Liane Moriarty

#27. When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

Raymond Burr

#28. Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything.

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#29. The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Michelangelo Buonarroti