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All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
Richard Burton
Me
Bad Things
Bad
Always
Happened
Rome
Ever
Things
Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.
Richard Burton
Robert
Anyone
Mean
Even
Henry
Play
Played
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
Me
Speak
Guardian
Philip
Took
Ten
Wing
Until
Schoolmaster
Became
His
English
Who
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton
Me
You
Justice
Will
Please
About
Only
May
Vicious
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Richard Burton
Work
Others
Books
Lean
Fat
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton
Man
Woman
Something
More
Than
While
Less
Actor
Actress
How terrible a thing time is.
Richard Burton
Time
Terrible
How
Thing
Every word I write I suspect the next day.
Richard Burton
Day
Word
Every
Write
Suspect
Next
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
Richard Burton
War
Heroes
Down
Rugby
Songs
Up
Pit
Grew
Stories
Sang
Who
Among
Played
I'm so weak at saying no.
Richard Burton
Saying
Weak
I always speak Welsh to my family.
Richard Burton
Family
Speak
Always
Welsh
'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
Richard Burton
Almighty
Robe
Dull
Hit
Lousy
Flop
I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.
Rob Brydon
People
Like
Spot
Witty
Who
When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
Rob Brydon
You
Laugh
Something
Fails
Doing
Comment
Get
There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.
Rob Brydon
Life
Me
People
Some People
Fine
Some
Charmed
Only
Ads
Know
Who
I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.
Rob Brydon
Life
Prone
More
Outlook
Depressed
I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.
Rob Brydon
People
Money
Must
Able
Silly
Voices
Could
Had
Knew
Thus
Make
Doing
Lots
Where
Realised
Moment
I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.
Rob Brydon
Good
Me
School
Word
Think
Say
Kids
Pretend
Would
About
Know
Deny
Any
Even
I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.
Rob Brydon
Life
Me
You
Think
Everything
Call
Got
Children
Want
Separate
Your
Showbiz
Thing
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
Law
Society
State
Paraphernalia
Folly
Rational
Courts
Cannot
Found
I love to see people blossom.
Roger Rees
Love
People
See
Blossom
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
Roger Rees
Art
Great
School
College
Year
Great Art
Later
Prestigious
Out
Fine
Fine Art
Schools
Well
Terribly
Got
Year Later
Arts
Sent
Painter
Thing
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
Roger Rees
Word
Mind
One Word
Shakespeare
Could
Demanded
Ambiguity
Offers
Wanted
Mean
Us
Choices
Things
Elizabethan
I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.
Roger Rees
Director
Think
Directing
Like
Acting
Actor
I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.
Roger Rees
Art
Good
School
Pretty
Only
The Only Thing
Rough
Thing
I wish I'd played Coriolanus.
Roger Rees
Wish
Played
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