Richard Burton

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

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.

What an extraordinary world it is.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

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.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

I abhor mere prettiness.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.

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.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

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.

How terrible a thing time is.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

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