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Richard Burton
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“If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion... I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image. When he reached the age of 50, after a five-year career slump. I can only say with Edith Piaf, 'Je ne regrette rien'.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Olivia St. Claire Sex Devotional: 365 Days of Passion, Positions, and Pure Pleasure, Adams Media, 18 November 2009, p. 309
“She can do everything…there’s nothing she can’t do...she looks after me so well. Thank God I’ve found her.’”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Sally Hay whom he married in 1983, in Life: Richard Burton.
“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.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Playboy Interviews, Playboy Press, 1967, p. 100
“If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: The Love Letters. How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame. Without it, they couldn't even make love, Mail Online, 7 June 2010
“The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In The Little Book of Wales, The History Press, 1 May 2013, p. 56
“If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Gene N Landrum Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons, Morgan James Publishing, 1 November 2007, p. 225
“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Mark Pollman Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes, Wildstone Media, 1 January 1998, p. 146,
“I stayed in bed all day yesterday, for instance, while she [Elizabeth Taylor] spent the entire day until well after midnight sitting in the main room, gossiping, etc. And, of course, inevitably sipping away at the drinks... What is more frightening is that she has become bored with everything in life.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She [Elizabeth Taylor] never reads a book, at least not more than a couple of pages at a time... I have always been a heavy drinker but now as a result of this half-life we've been leading I am drinking twice as much. The upshot will be that I'll die of drink while she'll go blithely on in her half-world.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Katharine Viner The Guardian Year 2006, Random House, 2007, p. 287
“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.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Dear Long-wayaway-one,' very antisocial I am when I don't booze. And no fun when you're not around... Do you love me? Do you want to be a lazy Jane and never work again? Once I stopped boozing I have enjoyed not working. But we can't do it though.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman [Elizabeth Taylor] in the world.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always felt that the camera hasn't liked me. I'm a stage animal. I have to be big and loud, and the camera needs you to be small and naturalistic and subtle; much more naturalistic. I'm as subtle as a buffalo stampede.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Monogamy is absolutely imperative. The minute you start fiddling around outside the idea of monogamy, nothing satisfies anymore. Suppose you make love to an exciting woman other than your wife, it can’t remain enough to go bed with her there must be something else, something more than the absolute compulsion of the body. But if there is something more, it will eventually destroy either you or your marriage.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In James Robert Parish The Hollywood Book of Breakups, John Wiley & Sons, 20-Dec-2010, p. 348
“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.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in 1963 quoted In Robert Andrews The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Penguin UK, 30 October 2003, p. 259
“It's difficult for me to know where to start with rugby. I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner's family, know so much about it, have read so much about it, have heard with delight so many massive lies and stupendous exaggerations about it and have contributed my own fair share, and five of my six brothers played it, one with some distinction... it's difficu1t for me to know where to start so I’ll begin with the end. The last shall be first, as it is said, so I'll tell you about the last match I ever played in...I had played the game representatively from the age of ten until those who employed me in my profession, which is that of actor, insisted that I was a bad insurance risk against certain dread teams in dead-end valleys who would have little respect, no respect, or outright disrespect for what I was pleased to call my face. What if I were unfortunate enough to be on the deck in the middle of a loose maul...they murmured in dollar accents?”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Richard Burton’s Last Match From Take the Ball and Run – A Rugby Anthology by Godfrey Smith, Wesclark, 1953.