Burt Lancaster Quotes

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

Burt Lancaster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994

Topics

MotherHellWildSheOutBeat

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

Johannes Heesters

LifeWaitingWrongNothingLived

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

ConflictSearchYouDramaBigPart

God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.

Andrae Crouch

MusicGodPeopleLongGloryHim

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Robert Sheckley

ManThoughtRealHeroesTaskHonest

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

Stephanie Zimbalist

YourselfWorldBe YourselfStartYou

Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.

Jason Moran

MusicPeopleWorldHelpUnderstand

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

RespectIdeasDeepPowerfulDignity

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

Colin Greenwood

MeInternetFascinatingAboutThing

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

Britney Spears

LifeLoveLove LifeScaryThingsHe

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

EnjoyCrownKingsContentSeldom

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Mortimer Zuckerman

ResultDestructionMilesNatural

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

Lydia Leonard

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