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Richard Burton
Welsh
Actor
About the author
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Study
#Man
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Man
#Woman
#Actor
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Play
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Race
#Poets
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Will
#May
#Justice
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Work
#Books
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Actors
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Sea
#Islands
#Wishing
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Order
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,
Welsh
Actor
#Love
#Years
#Baby
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,
Welsh
Actor
#Life
#Friendship
#Ivy
#Animation
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Richard Burton,
Welsh
Actor
#Man
#Gold
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,
Welsh
Actor
#Life
#Man
#Memory
#Dream
#Events
#Trifles