Richard Burton

I'm so weak at saying no.

— Richard Burton

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

— Richard Burton

What an extraordinary world it is.

— Richard Burton

How terrible a thing time is.

— Richard Burton

I hate myself and my face in particular.

— Richard Burton

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

— Richard Burton

I abhor mere prettiness.

— Richard Burton

How drab people are, especially from the press.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You…

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of…

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and…

— Richard Burton

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a…

— Richard Burton

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

— Richard Burton

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable.…

— Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with…

— Richard Burton

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of…

— Richard Burton

“The actor Richard Burton once wrote an article for the New York Times about his experience playing the role of Winston Churchill…

— Richard Burton

I always speak Welsh to my family.

— Richard Burton

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

— Richard Burton

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

— Richard Burton

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

— Richard Burton

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

— Richard Burton

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton