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
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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.
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.
Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.
What an extraordinary world it is.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
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.
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.
Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.
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.
Every word I write I suspect the next day.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.
I always speak Welsh to my family.
I hate myself and my face in particular.
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?
How terrible a thing time is.
I abhor mere prettiness.
I'm so weak at saying no.
I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.
I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.
How drab people are, especially from the press.
My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.
You've got to swank in Hollywood.
I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
