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

- Richard Burton

Religion, Never, Study, Worshipped

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

- Richard Burton

Play, Henry, Even, Robert

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.

- Richard Burton

Reach, Maybe, Side, Heap

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.

- Richard Burton

More, Used, Had, Operation

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.

- Richard Burton

The Most Important, Which, Events

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.

- Richard Burton

Friendship, New, Embraces, Object

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

- Richard Burton

Bad, Only, Welsh, Bad Ones

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

- Richard Burton

Became, Took, Philip, Schoolmaster

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

- Richard Burton

Robe, Hit, Almighty, Flop

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

- Richard Burton

Play, Had, Remain, Sober

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

- Richard Burton

Very, Self-Conscious, Beatty, Warren

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

- Richard Burton

Wishing, Swallow, Large, Prisons

I always speak Welsh to my family.

- Richard Burton

Family, Speak, Always, Welsh

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

- Richard Burton

Next, I Write, Every, Suspect

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

Love, Burn, Still, Our Love

How terrible a thing time is.

- Richard Burton

Time, How, Thing, Terrible

I abhor mere prettiness.

- Richard Burton

Mere, Abhor

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

- Richard Burton

Father, Give, Sometimes, Creeps

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

- Richard Burton

War, Rugby, Stories, Pit

How drab people are, especially from the press.

- Richard Burton

People, How, Press

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.

- Richard Burton

Had, Youngest, Funniest, Sister

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

- Richard Burton

Best, Going, Make, Rubbish

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

- Richard Burton

Go, Most, Awful, Rubbish

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

- Richard Burton

Gold, Riches, Eats, Carries

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.

- Richard Burton

Never, Bad, Ever, Poets

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

- Richard Burton

New, Next, Hollywood, Prince

I hate myself and my face in particular.

- Richard Burton

Myself, Hate, Face, Particular

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

- Richard Burton

Cool, Clarity, Brilliant, Surgical

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

- Richard Burton

Will, May, About, Vicious

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.

- Richard Burton

Alive, Here, I Can, Millions

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