Top 15 Quotes by Richard Burton

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.