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Richard Burton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984

Topics

Father Son Myself I Am Sometimes Am

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Work Better You Blood Say Prove

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

Work Me Budget Size Sense Your

For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

Care Band Us About Maintaining

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

Women Men Creative Celebrate Go

No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

Risks World Other Entertainer Ever

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Me Control Mad Tragedy Emotions Out

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

Civility Washington Need Liberal

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Good Great Learn Push Doing Back

There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

Political Playing Level Field Thing

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Say Image Things Controversial Still

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Brenton Thwaites

Weird Someone You Go Know Want

Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.

Life Curious Me Choices Happen Us

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