Richard Burton Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine.

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

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She can do everything…there's nothing she can't do... she looks after me so well. Thank God I've found her.'

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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.

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My father considered that anyone who went to chapel and didn't drink alcohol was not to be tolerated. I grew up in that belief.

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I'm afraid we are temporarily out in the cold, and fallen stars. What is remarkable is that we have stayed up there for so long.

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I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman [Elizabeth Taylor] in the world.

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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.

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You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side; maybe for years. You get scared. He said then he thought he was coming out of a slump.

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Although I like to be thought of as a tough rugby-playing Welsh miner's son, able to take on the world, the reality is that this image is just superficial. I am the reverse of what people think.

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